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
1
1
215
journal article
28027
10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1
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MONODACTYLIDAE
Monodactylus
argenteus
(Linnaeus 1758)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
new record
, based on HUJ 10622, identified by M. Dor).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1870, as
Psettus argenteus
),
Sudan
(
Borodin 1930, as
Psettus falciformis
),
Eritrea
(Cuvier in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831
, as
Psettus rhombeus
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scomber rhombeus
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Mariana and
Caroline islands
and
Samoa
.