Genera that contain: Novaculichthys [ 5 ] records

Dimalacocentrus Gill [T. N.] 1863:223 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 15; ref. 1685] Masc. Novacula kallosoma Bleeker 1860. Type by monotypy. •Synonym of Novaculichthys Bleeker 1862 -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:31 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Novaculichthys Bleeker 1862. Labridae.

Malacocentrus Gill [T. N.] 1862:143 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 14 (nos 3-4); ref. 1662] Masc. Xyrichthys taeniurus Valenciennes 1840. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Type designated by Gill's style of one species in parentheses in key. Correct spelling for genus of type species is Xyrichtys. •Synonym of Novaculichthys Bleeker 1862 -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:31 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Novaculichthys Bleeker 1862. Labridae.

Novaculichthys Bleeker [P.] 1862:414 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1861 (pt 3); ref. 382] Masc. Labrus taeniourus Lacepède 1801. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Also appeared in Bleeker 1862:102 [ref. 386]. •Valid as Novaculichthys Bleeker 1862 -- (Randall 1981:98 [ref. 5447], Richards & Leis 1984:544 [ref. 13668], Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:212 [ref. 6441], Randall 1986:699 [ref. 5706], Parenti & Randall 2000:31 [ref. 24943], Westneat 2001:3384 [ref. 26277], Randall & Lobel 2003:971 [ref. 27563], Randall & Earle 2004:39 [ref. 27618], Allen et al. 2006:1402 [ref. 29095], Randall et al. 2008:150 [ref. 29753], Kuiter 2010:385 [ref. 35285], Fricke et al. 2018:288 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:127 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:235 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Novaculichthys Bleeker 1862. Labridae.

Novaculops Schultz [L. P.] in Schultz, Chapman, Lachner & Woods 1960:(122) 143 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 202, v. 2; ref. 3972] Masc. Novaculichthys woodi Jenkins 1901. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Synonym of Novaculichthys Bleeker 1862 -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:31 [ref. 24943], Randall & Earle 2002:390 [ref. 26445]). •Synonym of Xyrichtys Cuvier 1814 -- (Shen & Yeh 1987:64 [ref. 6419] based on placement of type species, Randall et al. 2008:150 [ref. 29753]). •Valid as Novaculops Schultz 1960 -- (Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:212 [ref. 6441], Kuiter 2010:383 [ref. 35285], Randall 2013:20 [ref. 32688], Ho et al. 2013:75 [ref. 33261], Motomura et al. 2017:185 [ref. 35490], Parenti & Randall 2018:19 [ref. 35964], Fukui 2020:555 [ref. 37325]). Current status: Valid as Novaculops Schultz 1960. Labridae.

Semachlorella (subgenus of Novaculichthys) Fowler [H. W.] & Bean [B. A.] 1928:367 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 100, v. 7; ref. 1475] Fem. Julis bifer Lay & Bennett 1839. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Synonym of Novaculichthys Bleeker 1862 -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:31 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Novaculichthys Bleeker 1862. Labridae.