| Stethojulis strigiventer | |
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| male Stethojulis strigiventer | |
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| female Stethojulis strigiventer | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Stethojulis |
| Species: | S. strigiventer |
| Binomial name | |
| Stethojulis strigiventer (Bennett, 1833) | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
Stethojulis strigiventer, also known as the three-ribbon wrasse, silverstreak wrasse, silverbelly wrasse, lined rainbowfish or silver-streaked rainbowfish, [3] is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a wrasse from the family Labridae. [2] This species occurs in beds of seagrass and areas of inner reefs and shallow lagoons where there is a substrate consisting of mixed sand, rubble, and algae. It is found in small groups which swim over large areas down as deep as 20 metres (66 ft). [1] The range of this species extends from the Red Sea southwards along the eastern coast of Africa to Algoa Bay in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and eastwards to the Marshall and Tuamotu islands, it also extends north to Honshu and south to New South Wales. [2] This species was first formally described as Julis strigiventer in 1833 by the English zoologist Edward Turner Bennett (1797-1836) with the type locality given as Mauritius. [4] When Albert Günther created the genus Stethojulis he designated Julis strigiventer as the type species. [5]