notospilus, Pseudojulis Günther [A.] 1864:26 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864 (pt 1) (art. 4) (for 26 Jan. 1864); ref. 5752] Pacific coast of Panama. Syntypes: BMNH 1863.12.16.49-54 (6?), ZMB 5423 (1). Also appeared in Günther 1864:230 [ref. 1976]. •Valid as Iridio notospilus (Günther 1864) -- (Kuiter 2010:220 [ref. 35285]). •Valid as Halichoeres notospilus (Günther 1864) -- (Allen & Robertson 1992:47 [ref. 19541], Allen & Robertson 1994:202 [ref. 22193], Gomon in Fischer et al. 1995:1216 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:198 [ref. 24545] as nostopilus, Grove & Lavenberg 1997:494 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:333 [ref. 24555], Parenti & Randall 2000:23 [ref. 24943], Thomson et al. 2000:180 [ref. 25640], Victor et al. 2001:282 [ref. 25613], Baldwin & McCosker 2001:93 [ref. 25779], Nelson et al. 2004:155 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:136 [ref. 37547], Rocha et al. 2010:26 [ref. 30767], Barber & Bellwood 2005:249 [ref. 35318], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:193 [ref. 30957], Page et al. 2013:160 [ref. 32708], Angulo et al. 2013:1006 [ref. 33194], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:148 [ref. 34871], Fourriére et al. 2016:448 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:610 [ref. 34923], Wainwright et al. 2017:37 [ref. 35725], González-Murcia et al. 2019:301 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:177 [ref. 39279], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:280 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:9 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Halichoeres notospilus (Günther 1864). Labridae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.