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
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1
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journal article
28027
10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1
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EPHIPPIDAE
Platax boersii
Bleeker 1853
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(
Lieske & Myers 2010 as
Platax boersi
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Palau
, waifs reaching Hawaiian Islands.
Platax orbicularis
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971, as
Platax vespertilio
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1870, as
Platax vespertilio
),
Eritrea
(
Rüppell 1829, as
Platax albipunctatus
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Chaetodon orbicularis
; see
Fricke 2008
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to Tuamotu Archipelago
.
Platax teira
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971
),
Eritrea
(Tortonese 1935, as
Platax pinnatus
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Rüppell 1829
),
Yemen
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Chaetodon teira
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to
Northern Marianas
, Solomon and
Loyalty islands
.
Remark:
Two specimens were recorded from the eastern Mediterranean Sea (see
Bilecenoglu and Kaya 2006
;
Golani
et al
2011c
).
Tripterodon orbis
Playfair in Playfair & Günther 1867