Stylocheilus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Figure 8I

Material examined.

One specimen 25 mm, SRB; one specimen 22 mm, CB; one specimen 29 mm, TT.

Ecology.

From shallow and deep soft sediment habitats grazing of mats of cyanobacteria on the benthos. Depth 1-18 m.

Distribution.

Circumtropical including Brazil ( Galvão Filho et al. 2015), Mexico (Ortigosa et al. 2015), Guadeloupe (Ortea Rato et al. 2012), the Azores (Malaquias et al. 2009), Mozambique (Jochum and Favre 2017), India (Apte 2009), Vietnam (Martynov and Korshunova 2012), Indonesia (Eisenbarth et al. 2018), Australia (Nimbs and Smith 2016), French Polynesia (Horwitz et al. 2017), Fiji (Thaman et al. 2017), the Caribbean, Galapagos, South Africa, Red Sea, Hawaii and California (Gosliner et al. 2008). Documented from the Gulf of Thailand (Mehrotra and Scott 2016), and from Andaman Sea (as S. longicauda) by Jensen (1998).