Oxycheilinus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Labriformes

Familia: Labridae
Genus: Oxycheilinus
Species: O. arenatus – O. bimaculatus – O. celebicus – O. digramma – O. lineatus – O. mentalis – O. nigromarginatus – O. orientalis – O. rhodochrous – O. unifasciatus
Name

Oxycheilinus Gill, 1862:143

Type species: Cheilinus arenatus Valenciennes, 1840. Type by original designation (also monotypic).
References

Gill, T.N. 1862: Catalogue of the fishes of Lower California in the Smithsonian Institution, collected by Mr. J. Xantus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 14 (3-4): 140–151.
Parenti, P. & J.E. Randall 2000: An annotated checklist of the species of the Labroid fish families Labridae and Scaridae. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, 68: 1–97.

Vernacular names
English: Wrasses

Oxycheilinus is a genus of fish in the family Labridae found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean.[2]
Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:

Oxycheilinus arenatus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Speckled maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus bimaculatus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Two-spot maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus celebicus (Bleeker, 1853) (Celebes maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus digramma (Lacépède, 1801) (Cheek-lined maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus lineatus J. E. Randall, Westneat & M. F. Gomon, 2003
Oxycheilinus mentalis (Rüppell, 1828) (Mental maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus nigromarginatus J. E. Randall, Westneat & M. F. Gomon, 2003 (Black-margin maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus orientalis (Günther, 1862) (Oriental maori wrasse)
Oxycheilinus samurai Y. Fukui, Muto & Motomura, 2016 [3]
Oxycheilinus unifasciatus (Streets, 1877) (Ringtail maori wrasse)

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Oxycheilinus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Oxycheilinus in FishBase. October 2016 version.
Fukui, Y., Muto, N. & Motomura, H. (2016): A new species of labrid fish Oxycheilinus samurai from the western Pacific Ocean. Ichthyological Research, 64 (2): 212-220.