albovittatus, Labrus Bonnaterre [J. P.] (ex Koelreuter) 1788:108, Pl. 98 (fig. 399) [Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie; ref. 4940] No locality stated. No types known. Originally as albo-vittatus. Based on Koelreuter 1764:458 [ref. 26164]. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:431 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. •Valid as Stethojulis albovittata (Bonnaterre 1788) -- (Randall & Kay 1974:103 [ref. 22741], Dor 1984:207 [ref. 29757], Randall 1986:702 [ref. 5706] as albovittatus, Winterbottom et al. 1989:56 [ref. 13251], Goren & Dor 1994:55 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:288 [ref. 22896], Fricke 1999:431 [ref. 24106], Randall 2000:7 [ref. 24432], Parenti & Randall 2000:39 [ref. 24943], Allen & Adrim 2003:51 [ref. 26830] as albovittatus, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S115 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3326 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:352 [ref. 28072], Randall 2007:341 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:89 [ref. 30213], Kuiter 2010:352 [ref. 35285], Allen & Erdmann 2012:718 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:267 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2018:292 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:129 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:19 [ref. 36883], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:173 [ref. 40104], Zajonz et al. 2019:90 [ref. 36871], Randall & Victor 2022:250 [ref. 39916], Fricke et al. 2024:77 [ref. 41255], Noushad K. et al. 2024:45 [ref. 40947]). Current status: Valid as Stethojulis albovittata (Bonnaterre 1788). Labridae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Lakshadweep (India), Maldives and Chagos Archipelago (Beitish Indian Ocean Territory); possibly Sri Lanka and east to Indonesia. Habitat: marine.