orientalis, Cheilinus Günther [A.] (ex Bleeker) 1862:132 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 4; ref. 1969] Batjan, Indonesia. Possible type: BMNH 1864.5.15.8. Based on Cheilinus coccineus of Bleeker 1862:71, Pl. 33 (fig. 8) [ref. 4858]. •Valid as Cheilinus orientalis Günther 1862 -- (Kuiter 1993:294 [ref. 23929], Kuiter 2010:182 [ref. 35285]). •Valid as Oxycheilinus orientalis (Günther 1862) -- (Allen 1997:180 [ref. 23977], Myers 1999:192 [ref. 23965], Parenti & Randall 2000:33 [ref. 24943], Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:629 [ref. 25122], Allen 2000:114 [ref. 25868], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:103 [ref. 26368], Westneat 2001:3450 [ref. 26277], Allen & Adrim 2003:50 [ref. 26830], Randall & Khalaf 2003:136 [ref. 26684], Randall et al. 2003:361 [ref. 27177], Myers & Donaldson 2003:634 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:74 [ref. 27576], Adrim et al. 2004:124 [ref. 27715], Randall 2005:429 [ref. 28239], Randall 2007:328 [ref. 30952], Allen & Erdmann 2012:704 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:136 [ref. 33932], Fukui et al. 2016:[5] 219 [ref. 35080], Koeda et al. 2016:77 [ref. 35333], Daly et al. 2018:5 [ref. 35897], Golani & Fricke 2018:128 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:235 [ref. 36673], Farhana-Azmi et al. 2022:8 [ref. 40448], Randall & Victor 2022:233 [ref. 39916]). Current status: Valid as Oxycheilinus orientalis (Günther 1862). Labridae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Amirantes (Seychelles); eastern Indonesia east to Caroline Islands, Marshall and Mariana Islands and Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.