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 6c170c2b-8792-4173-ac41-2aa1fe2b7ab7 1175-5326 2607566 9D80FE28-D378-4C7D-87D7-380F6B583BC1 HAEMULIDAE * Diagramma punctatum Cuvier 1830 Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Plectorhinchus pictus ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Diagramma pictum ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diagramma cinerascens and D. umbrinum ), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895 ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al . 2014b , as Diagramma picta punctata ), Yemen (Heda et al . 1998, as Diagramma pictum ). General distribution: Red Sea endemic. Plectorhinchus albovittatus (Rüppell 1838) Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Diagramma albovittatum ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983, as Plectorhynchus harrawayi ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands , Fiji and Tonga . Plectorhinchus flavomaculatus (Cuvier 1830) Gulf of Suez : Egypt (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a , as Diagramma flavomaculatum ). Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diagramma foetela ), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Diagramma ornatum ), Saudi Arabia ( Gladstone 2002, as Plectorhynchus flavomaculatus ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Vanuatu . Plectorhinchus gaterinus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775 ) Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Randall & Johnson 2000 ), Israel ( Shpigel 1997 ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997 ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Diagramma gaterina ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Plectorhynchus gaterina ), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Diagramma gaterina ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775 , as Sciaena gaterina ; see Fricke 2008 ), Yemen (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a , as Diagramma gaterina ). General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf south to Comoros , Madagascar and western Mascarenes. Remark: A questionable record from the northern Aegean Sea ( Corsini-Foka and Sarlis 2016 ). Plectorhinchus gibbosus (Lacepède 1802) Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al . 2017 ). Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Diagramma crassispinum ). Yemen ( Lieske & Myers 2010 ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline and Society islands. Plectorhinchus schotaf (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775 ) Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al . 2017 ). Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997 ). Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877 , as Diagramma griseum ; Tortonese 1947a ), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Diagramma schotaf ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève 1956 ). General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India . Plectorhinchus sordidus ( Klunzinger 1870 ) Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diagramma sordidum ), Eritrea ( Botros 1971, as Diagramma sordidum ), Yemen (Heda et al . 1998, as Plectorhinchus sorolidus ). General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf to Madagascar and western Mascarenes. Pomadasys argenteus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775 ) Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al . 2017 ). Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Pristipoma argenteum ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775 , as Sciaena argentea ; see Fricke 2008 ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Vanuatu . Pomadasys kaakan (Cuvier 1830) Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al . 2017 ). Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Pomadasys kaakan ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines . Pomadasys maculatus (Bloch 1793) Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al . 2017 ). Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Fowler & Steinitz 1956 ). Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al . 2014b ), Yemen (Heda et al . 1998, as Pomadasys maculatum ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and New Guinea . Pomadasys punctulatus (Rüppell 1838) Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Pristipoma punctulatum ). General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Oman to Persian Gulf. Pomadasys stridens (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775 ) Gulf of Suez : Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Pristipoma stridens ). Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952 ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997 ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Pristipoma stridens ), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a , as Pristipoma simmene ; Picaglia 1895 , as Pristipoma stridens ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Pomadasys striatus ). General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India . Remark: Lessepsian migrant in eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1977 , as Rhonciscus stridens ).