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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SIGANIDAE
Siganus argenteus
(Quoy & Gaimard 1825)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952
, as
Siganus rostratus
;
Woodland 1990
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Amphacanthus
rostratus
);
Eritrea
(Valenciennes in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835
, as
Amphacanthus
rostratus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Wake
Atoll and
Pitcairn
.
Siganus luridus
(
Rüppell 1829
)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Rüppell 1829, as
Amphacanthus
luridus
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Woodland 1990
),
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia 1964
;
Paperna 1972a
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(Rüppell 1871, as
Amphacanthus
luridus
),
Sudan
(
Fowler 1931
),
Eritrea
(Valenciennes in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835
, as
Amphacanthus
luridus
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Tortonese 1983
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf to
Comores
,
Madagascar
and western Mascarenes.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Ben-Tuvia 1966
;
Woodland 1990
).
Siganus rivulatus
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Rüppell 1829
, as
Amphacanthus siganus
;
Tortonese 1948
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Marshall 1952, as
Teuthis rivulatus
),
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952
), (Kimmerling
et al
. 2017, as
Siganus sutor
),
Jordan
(
Bouchon
et al
. 1981
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Amphacanthus sigan.
),
Sudan
(
Bamber 1915
),
Eritrea
(Valenciennes in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835
, as
Amphacanthus siganus
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Tortonese 1983
),
Yemen
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scarus rivulatus
and
Scarus sidjan
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
,
western Indian Ocean
:
East Africa
to Persian
Gulf
.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Ben-Tuvia 1966
;
Woodland 1990
).
Siganus stellatus
(Forsskål 1775)
Gulf of Suez:
Eritrea
(
Botros 1971, as
Teuthis stellata
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Paperna 1972a
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Amphacanthus
stellatus
),
Sudan
(
Bamber 1915
),
Eritrea
(
Picaglia 1895, as
Amphacanthus
stellatus
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scarus stellatus
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western
Indonesia
.