Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants
Author
Golani, Daniel
Author
Fricke, Ronald
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-05
4509
1
1
215
journal article
28027
10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1
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CICHLIDAE
Coptodon zillii
(Gervais 1848)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Bayoumi, 1969
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea
main: ¯
General distribution:
Jordan
River system and rivers of North and
West Africa
; introduced elsewhere
.
Oreochromis mossambicus
(Peters 1852)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Golani & Lerner 2007
).
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
Remark. Originally distributed in freshwater and transitional water of southeastern Africa; introduced into marine water of the
Red Sea
.
General distribution:
Rivers of southeastern Africa; introduced elsewhere.