nigropinnatus, Cheilinus Seale [A.] 1901:86 [Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History v. 1 (no. 3); ref. 14357] Guam, Mariana Islands, western Pacific. Holotype: BPBM 134. Paratypes: ANSP 91668 (1), BPBM 132 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:117 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Wetmorella nigropinnata (Seale 1901) -- (Winterbottom et al. 1989:57 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:340 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:55 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:196 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:278 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:340 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:194 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:447 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:23 [ref. 25829], Parenti & Randall 2000:47 [ref. 24943], Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:630 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1007 [ref. 25182], Randall & Earle 2000:17 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:269 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:39 [ref. 25847], Westneat 2001:3463 [ref. 26277], Nakabo 2002:1007 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:51 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S114 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:634 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:23 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3326 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:442 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1416 [ref. 29095], Randall & Kuiter 2007:5 [ref. 29398], Satapoomin 2009:232 [ref. 30463], Kuiter 2010:168 [ref. 35285], Allen & Erdmann 2012:725 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:267 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:139 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988] dated 1900, Koeda et al. 2016:79 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:295 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:130 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:240 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Wetmorella nigropinnata (Seale 1901). Labridae. Distribution: Western Pacific: Indonesia east to Marshall Islands, Marquesas Islands and Oeno (Pitcairn Group), north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia, New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.