lineatus, Anampses melanurus Randall [J. E.] 1972:172, Fig. 7 [Micronesica v. 8 (nos 1-2); ref. 613] Off Steinitz Marine Biology Laboratory, Hebrew University, Eilat, Israel, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, depth 130 feet. Holotype: BPBM 13268. Paratypes: BPBM 13269 (1); HUJ 6743 [ex BPBM 13270] (1); USNM 208027 (1). Type catalog: Golani 2006:29 [ref. 28840]. •Synonym of Anampses melanurus Bleeker 1857, but a valid subspecies as described -- (Dor 1984:195 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Anampses lineatus Randall 1972 -- (Randall 1986:685 [ref. 5706], Goren & Dor 1994:52 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:269 [ref. 22896], Myers 1999:196 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:392 [ref. 24106], Parenti & Randall 2000:4 [ref. 24943], Allen & Adrim 2003:47 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S114 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3325 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:390 [ref. 28239], Fricke et al. 2009:82 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:217 [ref. 30463], Kuiter 2010:345 [ref. 35285] and as cf. lineatus, Allen & Erdmann 2012:633 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2018:276 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:121 [ref. 36273], Zajonz et al. 2019:89 [ref. 36871], Tea et al. 2020:3 [ref. 37258], Durville et al. 2021:313 [ref. 38802], Randall & Victor 2022:170 [ref. 39916], Allen & Erdmann 2024:687 [ref. 40796]). Current status: Valid as Anampses lineatus Randall 1972. Labridae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to western Indonesia. Habitat: marine.