The African striped grunt (Parapristipoma octolineatum) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae, one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae, the grunts.

[2] The African striped grunt is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.

It ranges along the western coast of Africa from Angola in the south north to Morocco, including the islands in the Gulf of Guinea and the Macaronesian Islands and the southern Iberian Peninsula, into the southern Mediterranean as far as east as Tunisia.

[5] The African striped grunt was first formally described in 1833 by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes with the type locality given as Gorée in Senegal.

[8] The African striped grunt is occasionally caught throughout its range, however, it is apparently not common and the catch is not reported separately.