| Citation | Tea, Y.-K., L. Baraf, Y. Menkara, W.B. Ludt, G.R. Allen, J.-P.A. Hobbs and P.F. Cowman, 2026, Cleaning up the cleaner wrasses: revision of the Labroides phthirophagus and Labroides bicolor species complexes, with rediagnosis of Labroides quadrilineatus and descriptions of two new species (Teleostei: Labridae).. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology v. 74: 403-443. |
| Ref. | Tea, Y.-K., L. Baraf, Y. Menkara, W.B. Ludt, G.R. Allen, J.-P.A. Hobbs and P.F. Cowman, 2026 |
| Page | 422;fig.2023,36C;tab.4 |
| Named Used as Valid | Labroides pectoralis |
| Comment | |
| Locality | Palau, Auluptagel I., BPBM 7245. |
| Distribution | Western Pacific. Eastern Indonesia (throughout the Lesser Sunda Is., the Banda Arch., Moluccan Arch., Sulawesi, and west Papua); Philippines, Palau; north to the Okinawa Is. |
| Quote | Pacific: Bismarck Arch., the Solomon Is., the Caroline Is., the Marshall Is., the Northern Mariana Is., Ogasawara, the Great Barrier Reef in northeastern Australia, the Coral Sea, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu. Eastern Indian Ocean: reported from Ashmore Reef and the Cartier Islands in the Timor Sea, and from Rowley Shoals, Scott Reef, and Seringapatam Reefs off Western Australia. |