unifasciatus, Cheilinus Streets [T. H.] 1877:82 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum v.1 (no. 7); ref. 4290] Tabuaeran [= Fanning Island], Line Islands, central Pacific. Holotype: USNM 19222. Paratypes: USNM 19223-24 (3, 2). Nomen protectum on the basis of Art. 23.9 (Randall & Parenti 1999:29 [ref. 24276]). •Nomen protectum from Cheilinus polygramma Valenciennes 1840 -- (Randall & Parenti 1999:29 [ref. 24276]). •Valid as Cheilinus unifasciatus Streets 1877 -- (Allen & Swainston 1988:112 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:304 [ref. 15987], Allen 1997:178 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 2010:180 [ref. 35285]). •Valid as Oxycheilinus unifasciatus (Streets 1877) -- (Randall et al. 1997:304 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:192 [ref. 23965], Randall & Parenti 1999:29 [ref. 24276], Randall 1999:22 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:91 [ref. 37268], Parenti & Randall 2000:33 [ref. 24943], Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:629 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1010 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:365 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:17 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:268 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:39 [ref. 25847], Westneat 2001:3451 [ref. 26277], Nakabo 2002:1010 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:50 [ref. 26830], Randall et al. 2003:361 [ref. 27177], Myers & Donaldson 2003:634 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:74 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:22 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:428 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:444 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1404 [ref. 29095], Randall 2007:327 [ref. 30952], Motomura et al. 2010:170 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:705 [ref. 31980], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Fukui et al. 2016:[1] [ref. 35080], Koeda et al. 2016:77 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2019:236 [ref. 36673], Hata in Motomura et al. 2021:57 [ref. 38121], Dewa et al. 2022:22 [ref. 40001], Farhana-Azmi et al. 2022:8 [ref. 40448]). Nomen Protectum. Current status: Valid as Oxycheilinus unifasciatus (Streets 1877). Labridae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western and central Pacific: Christmas Island, Cocos-Keeling islands, Malaysia and Indonesia east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to Ryukyu Islands and Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Western Australia, New Caledonia, Tonga and Rapa. Habitat: marine.
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