martinicensis, Xyrichthys Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:49 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 14; ref. 4882] Martinique Island, West Indies. Syntypes: MNHN A-9094 (2). Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:110 [ref. 19171]. Original genus should have been Xyrichtys. •Valid as Hemipteronotus martinicensis (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:206 [ref. 23100], Cervigón 1992:347 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:422 [ref. 24474]). •Valid as Xyrichtys martinicensis Valenciennes 1840 -- (Edwards & Lubbock 1981:236 [ref. 8608], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:398 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:295 [ref. 25013], Parenti & Randall 2000:49 [ref. 24943], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:164 [ref. 27754], Rocha & Rosa 2001:991 [ref. 25909] as Xirichthys cf. martinicensis, Westneat 2003:1718 [ref. 27105], Nelson et al. 2004:156 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:524 [ref. 28815], García-Hernández et al. 2009:93 [ref. 37265] as Xyrichthys m., Kuiter 2010:371 [ref. 35285], Page et al. 2013:161 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:65 [ref. 33341], Shen & Clark 2016:33 [ref. 34165], Robertson et al. 2020:157 [ref. 38098], Carvalho-Filho et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:467 [ref. 38945], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:71 [ref. 39585], Carvalho-Filho 2023:212 [ref. 40480], Martínez-Servín et al. 2023:114 [ref. 40726]). Current status: Valid as Xyrichtys martinicensis Valenciennes 1840. Labridae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Florida (U.S.A.) and Bahamas south to northeastern Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2010): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.