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
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POMACANTHIDAE
Apolemichthys xanthotis
(Fraser-Brunner 1950)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Klausewitz 1983a
),
Israel
(
Katzir & Schechtman 1986
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of
Oman
and Persian Gulf.
Centropyge multispinis
(Playfair 1867)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Bouchon
et al
. 1981
, as
Centropyge multispinnis
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1870
, as
Holacanthus vrolikii
;
Abu El-Regal 2017
, as
Centrepyge
multispinis
),
Sudan
(
Botros 1971, as
Holacanthus vroliki
),
Eritrea
(
Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955
, as
Centropyge vroliki
;
Tortonese 1983
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to
Thailand
and western
Sumatra
(
Indonesia
).
Genicanthus caudovittatus
(Günther 1860)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Dor 1970, as
Genicanthus melanospilus caudovittatus
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1884, as
Holacanthus melanospilus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to
Sumatra
and
Bali
(western
Indonesia
).
Pomacanthus asfur
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971, as
Holacanthus asfur
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as
Euxiphipops asfur
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1870, as
Holacanthus asfur
),
Sudan
(
Bamber 1915, as
Holacanthus asfur
),
Eritrea
(Cuvier in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831
, as
Holacanthus caeruleus
;
Picaglia 1895
, as
Holacanthus asfur
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955
),
Yemen
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Chaetodon asfur
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
,
northwestern Indian Ocean
:
Gulf
of
Aden
.
Pomacanthus imperator
(Bloch 1787)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955
),
Jordan
(
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1870, as
Holacanthus imperator
),
Sudan
(
Botros 1971
, as
Holacanthus imperator
;
Edwards & Rosewell 1981
),
Eritrea
(
Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and
Pitcairn
Group.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani
et al
. 2010).
Pomacanthus maculosus
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Klausewitz 1969c
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1870, as
Holacanthus maculosus
),
Sudan
(
Klausewitz 1969c
),
Eritrea
(Cuvier in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831
, as
Holacanthus mokhella
and
H. haddaja
; Rüppell 1830, as
Holacanthus lineatus
and
H. striatus
;
Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a
, as
Pomacanthops filamentosus
; Clark
et al
. 1968),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1836, as
Holacanthus lineatus
;
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
),
Yemen
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Chaetodon maculosus
and
C. asfur caerulescens
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to
Pakistan
.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean Sea (see
Bariche 2010
;
Salameh
et al
2012
).
Pygoplites flavescens
(Bennett 1831)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971, as
Holacanthus diacanthus
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1870, as
Holacanthus diacanthus
),
Sudan
(
Botros 1971
, as
Holacanthus diacanthus
;
Edwards & Rosewell 1981
),
Eritrea
(
Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a
),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1836, as
Holacanthus dux
;
Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955
, as
Pigoplites
diacanthus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western
Indonesia
.
Remark:
Accepted as a valid subspecies of
P. diacanthus
by
Coleman
et al
. (2016)
; in the present paper raised to species level.