Scale-rayed wrasse

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| image = Brunsnultra.png

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Pollard, D. |date=2010 |title=Acantholabrus palloni |volume=2010 |page=e.T186106A8501267 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T186106A8501267.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Acantholabrus palloni

| authority = (A. Risso, 1810)

| range_map = Карта поширення Acantholabrus palloni.png

| range_map_caption = Map of the range of Acantholabrus palloni

| synonyms =

• Lutjanus palloni A. Risso, 1810
• Labrus palloni (A. Risso, 1810)
• Crenilabrus luscus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Labrus pallidus Nardo, 1824
• Acantholabrus imbricatus R. T. Lowe, 1839
• Acantholabrus couchii Valenciennes, 1839
• Acantholabrus couchi Valenciennes, 1839

| synonyms_ref =

}}

The scale-rayed wrasse, Acantholabrus palloni, is a species of wrasse native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean where it occurs from Norway to Gabon (including the various eastern Atlantic island groups) and in the Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic Sea. This species can be found on reefs at depths of from {{cvt|30|to|500|m|ft|-1}}. It can reach a length of {{cvt|25|cm|in}}. It is a commercially important food fish. It is currently the only known member of its genus.{{FishBase species |genus= Acantholabrus|species= palloni| month = August | year = 2013}}

It was first described by naturalist Antoine Risso, in 1810.