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
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-05
4509
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MONACANTHIDAE
Aluterus monoceros
Linnaeus 1758
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Sanzo 1930, as
Aluteres monoceros
).
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Clark & Gohar 1953, as
Alutera monoceros
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Remark:
Two specimens were recorded in the western Mediterranean Sea, probably entered via
Gibraltar
(
Guallart and Vicent 2009
).
Aluterus scriptus
(Osbeck 1765)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Monacanthus scriptus
),
Eritrea
(
Tortonese 1956, as
Alutera scripta
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Tortonese 1983, as
Alutera scripta
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Amanses scopas
(Cuvier 1829)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Lieske & Myers 2010
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(
Tortonese 1956
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as
Thamnaconus penicularius
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago.
*
Brachaluteres fahaqa
Clark & Gohar 1953
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Clark & Gohar 1953, as
Brachaluteres baueri fahaqa
).
General distribution:
Northern
Red Sea
endemic.
Cantherhines pardalis
(Rüppell 1830)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(Rüppell 1837, as
Monacanthus pardalis
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Lieske & Myers 2010
),
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as
Amanses sandwichiensis
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Monacanthus pardalis
),
Eritrea
(
Picaglia 1895, as
Monacanthus pardalis
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern
Japan
, Ogasawara Islands, Marquesas Islands and
Pitcairn
Group.
*
Oxymonacanthus halli
Marshall 1952
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Debelius 2007
), (
Lieske & Myers 2010
),
Israel
(Fishelson 1995).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Marshall 1952
),
Sudan
(
Edwards & Rosewell 1981
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as
Oxymonacanthus longirostris
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
endemic.
Paraluteres arqat
Clark & Gohar 1953
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Clark & Gohar 1953
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
,
northwestern Indian Ocean
:
Gulf
of
Aden
.
Paramonacanthus nematophorus
(Günther 1870)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Klausewitz 1983a, as
Paramonacanthus oblongus
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Fowler & Steinitz 1956, as
Monacanthus cirrosus
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Clark & Gohar 1953
, as
Paramonacanthus oblongus
;
Budker & Fourmanoir 1954
, as
Paramonacanthus barnardi
),
Eritrea
(
Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as
Monacanthus cirrosus
),
Yemen
(
Kotthaus 1979, as
Paramonacanthus
sp.
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa,
Seychelles
.
Paramonacanthus pusillus
(
Rüppell 1829
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997, as
Paramonacanthus falcatus
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Monacanthus pusillus
),
Eritrea
(
Rüppell 1829, as
Monacanthus pusillus
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
),
Yemen
(
Kotthaus 1979, as
Paramonacanthus falcatus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
and southern
Japan
.
Pervagor randalli
Hutchins 1986
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Hutchins 1986
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea
main basin:
Sudan
(
Clark & Gohar 1953, as
Pervagor melanocephalus
),
Eritrea
(
Kossmann & Räuber 1877
, as
Monacanthus melanocephalus
;
Hutchins 1986
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
,
northwestern Indian Ocean
:
Gulf
of
Aden
.
Stephanolepis diaspros
Fraser-Brunner 1940
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Tillier 1902
, as
Monacanthus setifer
;
Sanzo 1930
, as
Stephanolepis hispidus
;
Fraser-Brunner 1940
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as
Stephanolepis
cf.
oblongus
);
Jordan
(
Fraser-Brunner 1940
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Clark & Gohar 1953, as
Stephanolepis ocheticus
),
Sudan
(
Bamber 1915, as
Monacanthus setifer
),
Yemen
(
Sanzo 1930, as
Stephanolepis hispidus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of
Oman
, Persian Gulf.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Ben-Tuvia 1966
).
*
Thamnaconus erythraeensis
Bauchot & Maugé 1978
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Bauchot & Maugé 1978, as
Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis
),
Israel
(
Baranes & Golani 1993, as
Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997, as
Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis
).
Red Sea
main basin: -
General distribution:
Red Sea
endemic.