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
215
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1
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URANOSCOPIDAE
Remark:
Specimens from the
Gulf
of
Suez
(HUJ 8534) and
Gulf
of
Aqaba
(HUJ 4917 and 6457) were identified as
Uranosopus
fuscomaculatus
by H. Kishimoto; however, this is certainly a misidentification, as this species is restricted to the southwestern Pacific.
Uranoscopus affinis
Cuvier 1829
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific:
India
east to southern
Japan
,
Philippines
and Northern
Australia
.
Remark:
Three
Red Sea
specimens (HUJ 5496, 9861 and 13441) were identified as
U. affinis
by H. Kishimoto.
*
Uranoscopus bauchotae
Brüss 1987
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Brüss 1987a
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Gulf
of
Suez
endemic.
*
Uranoscopus dahlakensis
Brüss 1987
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(
Brüss 1987c
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
endemic.
Uranoscopus dollfusi
Brüss 1987
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Brüss 1987a
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of
Oman
, Persian Gulf.
Uranoscopus guttatus
Cuvier 1829
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Gruvel 1936
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indian Ocean:
India
.
*
Uranoscopus marisrubri
Brüss 1987
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Brüss 1987b
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Baranes & Golani 1993
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(
Brüss 1987b
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
endemic.
*
Uranoscopus rosette
Randall & Arnold 2012
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Randall & Arnold 2012
),
Israel
(
Dor 1970
, as
Uranoscopus fuscomaculatus
;
Randall & Arnold 2012
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
, as
Uranoscopus fuscomaculatus
;
Randall & Arnold 2012
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Debelius 2007 as
Uranoscopus dollfusi
), (
Randall & Arnold 2012
).
General distribution:
Northern
Red Sea
endemic.
Remark:
Previous
Red Sea
records of
Uranoscopus sulphureus
(non
Valenciennes 1832
) (e.g.
Randall 2005
,
Lieske & Myers 2010
) are based on this species.
Uranoscopus scaber
Linnaeus 1758
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Brüss 1987c
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: British Isles to
Morocco
(rarely to
Senegal
), including Madeira.
Remark:
Anti-Lessepsian migrant from the Mediterranean (see
Brüss 1987c
).