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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OSTRACIIDAE
Lactoria cornuta
(Linnaeus 1758)
Red Sea:
Egypt
(
Haroun
et al
. 2017
).
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(
Picaglia 1895, as
Ostracion cornutus
),
Yemen
(
Clark & Gohar 1953
).
General distribution:
Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern
Japan
, Ogasawara Islands, Marquesas and Tuamotu islands.
Ostracion cubicus
Linnaeus 1758
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952
),
Jordan
(
Bouchon
et al
. 1981
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(Rüppell 1828),
Saudi Arabia
(
Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as
Ostracion tuberculatus
),
Eritrea
(
Guichenot 1847
),
Saudi Arabia
(Klausewitz 1967, as
Ostracion tuberculatus
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to Tuamotu Archipelago
.
Remark:
Two specimens were recorded from the eastern Medierranean Sea (
Bariche 2011
).
Ostracion cyanurus
Rüppell 1828
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Tortonese 1968
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871
),
Sudan
(
Clark & Gohar 1953
),
Eritrea
(
Sanzo 1930
),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1828).
General distribution:
Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of
Oman
, Persian Gulf.
Tetrosomus gibbosus
(Linnaeus 1758)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937
, as
Ostracion turritus
;
El-Ganainy
et al
2005
, as
Tetrasomus gibbosus
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Lieske & Myers 2010
),
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as
Rhineosoma
gibbosus
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Ostracion turritus
),
Sudan
(
Sanzo 1930, as
Ostracion turritus
),
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1828, as
Ostracion turritus
;
Tortonese 1956
, as
Rhinesomus gibbosus
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
),
Yemen
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Ostracion turritus
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern
Japan
,
Philippines
and
New Caledonia
.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Spanier & Goren 1988
).