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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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1
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RHINOBATIDAE
Glaucostegus halavi
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Rhinobatus halavi
),
Sudan
(
Bamber 1915, as
Rhinobatus granulatus
),
Eritrea
(
Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as
Rhinobatus halavi
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Raja halavi
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf and Gulf of
Oman
to
Pakistan
.
Remark:
A single specimen was recorded in
Tunisia
as a Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean (
Ben Souissi
et al
2007
).
Glaucostegus thouin
(Anonymous 1798)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Duméril 1865, as
Rhinobatus thouini
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(
Pellegrin 1912, as
Rhinobatus thouini
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific:
India
east to
Indonesia
.
Rhina ancylostoma
Bloch & Schneider 1801
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Gohar & Mazhar 1964
),
Eritrea
(Tortonese 1935),
Saudi Arabia
(
Debelius 2007
), (
Spaet & Berumen 2015
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
.
Rhinobatos punctifer
Compagno & Randall 1987
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Randall & Compagno 1995
),
Israel
(
Compagno & Randall 1987
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to
Pakistan
.
Rhynchobatus djiddensis
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Raja djiddensis
; see
Fricke 2008
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871
),
Eritrea
(Tortonese 1935, as
Rhynchobatus djeddensis
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Raja djiddensis
; see
Fricke 2008
),
Yemen
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Raja djiddensis
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East and
South Africa
to
Madagascar
,
Réunion
and Persian Gulf.