Species that contain: Cheilinus and undulatus [ 5 ] records

festivus, Cheilinus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:104 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 14; ref. 4882] Oualan, Caroline Islands, western Pacific. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:18 [ref. 19171]. Possibly based on a drawing. •Synonym of Cheilinus undulatus Rüppell 1835. •Synonym of Cheilinus trilobatus Lacepède 1801 -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:8 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Cheilinus trilobatus Lacepède 1801. Labridae. Habitat: marine.

godeffroyi, Chilinus Günther [A.] 1872:666, Pl. 66 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871 (pt 3) (art. 1) (for 21 Nov. 1871); ref. 1997] Tonga Islands. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1871.9.13.96. Original genus should have been Cheilinus. •Synonym of Cheilinus undulatus Rüppell 1835 -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:9 [ref. 24943], Parenti & Randall 2000:58 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Cheilinus undulatus Rüppell 1835. Labridae. Habitat: marine.

mertensii, Cheilinus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:102 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 14; ref. 4882] Guam, Mariana Islands, western Pacific. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:18 [ref. 19171]. Based on a drawing. •Synonym of Cheilinus undulatus Rüppell 1835 -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:9 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Cheilinus undulatus Rüppell 1835. Labridae. Habitat: marine.

rostratus, Cheilinus Cartier [O.] 1874:103 [Verhandlungen der Physikalisch-medizinischen Gesellschaft zu Würzburg, N. S. v. 5; ref. 17974] Cebu, Philippines. Syntypes: (2) whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Oxycheilinus celebicus (Bleeker 1853). •Synonym of Cheilinus undulatus Rüppell 1835 -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:9 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Cheilinus undulatus Rüppell 1835. Labridae. Habitat: marine.

undulatus, Cheilinus Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1835:20, Pl. 6 (fig. 2) [Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3844] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. Holotype (unique): SMF 2733. •Valid as Cheilinus undulatus Rüppell 1835 -- (Dor 1984:199 [ref. 29757], Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:213 [ref. 6441], Randall 1986:690 [ref. 5706], Winterbottom et al. 1989:52 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:304 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:53 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:477 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:180 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:304 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:190 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:403 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:21 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:91 [ref. 37268], Parenti & Randall 2000:9 [ref. 24943], Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:628 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1007 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:353 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:200 [ref. 25480], Allen 2000:112 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:268 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:39 [ref. 25847], Westneat 2001:3416 [ref. 26277], Nakabo 2002:1007 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:48 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S114 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:634 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:73 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:21 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:398 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:434 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1377 [ref. 29095], Randall 2007:324 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:84 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:161 [ref. 31256], Kuiter 2010:176 [ref. 35285], Allen & Erdmann 2012:643 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:266 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:127 [ref. 33932], Koeda et al. 2016:74 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2018:280 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:123 [ref. 36273], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:168 [ref. 40104], Fricke et al. 2019:224 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:88 [ref. 36871], Fujiwara et al. 2020:36 [ref. 38631], Randall & Victor 2022:185 [ref. 39916]). Current status: Valid as Cheilinus undulatus Rüppell 1835. Labridae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to northern Australia and New Caledonia; waifs at Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.). Habitat: marine.