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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journal article
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ENGRAULIDAE
Encrasicholina gloria
Hata & Motomura 2016
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Whitehad 1965
, as
Stolephorus buccaneeri
;
El-Ganainy
et al
2005
, as
Stolephorus punetifer
;
Hata & Motomura 2016
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(
Hata & Motomura 2016
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
,
northwestern Indian Ocean
: Persian
Gulf
.
Remarks:
Red Sea
records of
Encrasicholina punctifer
(non Fowler 1938) are based on this species (see
Hata & Motomura 2016
). Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Hata & Motomura 2016
).
Encrasicholina heteroloba
(Rüppell 1837)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Gruvel 1936, as
Engraulis heterolobus
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Martens 1867, as
Engraulis heteroloba
),
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1837, as
Engraulis heteroloba
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Caroline Islands
,
Samoa
and
Tonga
.
Engraulis encrasicolus
(Linnaeus 1758)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Tillier 1902
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Azov Sea, eastern Atlantic:
Norway
to
South Africa
including Madeira and Canary Islands; southwestern Indian Ocean.
Remark:
Anti-Lessepsian migrant from eastern Mediterranean into
Red Sea
(see
Whitehead 1965
).
Stolephorus indicus
(van Hasselt 1823)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(
Whitehead 1965
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
),
Yemen
(
Whitehead 1965
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline, Mariana and Society islands.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean (see
Fricke
et al
. 2015a
).
Stolephorus insularis
Hardenberg 1933
Gulf
of
Suez
:
Probably present, but not recorded.
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea
main basin:
Probably present, but not recorded.
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to western
Indonesia
and South
China
Sea.
Remark:
This Indo-West Pacific species was recorded as a Lessepsian migrant from the southeastern Mediterranean by Fricke
et al
. (2012); it evidently arrived from the Gulf of Suez.
Thryssa baelama
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
New
record
, based on specimens HUJ 20178, 20180 and 20181 (identified by
D. Golani
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Engraulis boelama
),
Sudan
(
Bamber 1915, as
Engraulis boelama
),
Eritrea
(Valenciennes in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1848
, as
Engraulis boelama
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Whitehead 1965
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998, as
Thryssa setirostris
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline and
Mariana islands
,
Samoa
and
Tonga
.