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 ATHERINIDAE * Atherinomorus forskalii (Rüppell 1838) Gulf of Suez : Egypt (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835 , as Atherina pectoralis ; Kimura et al . 2007 ). Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955 , as Alanetta forskali ; Bucciarelli et al . 2002 , as Atherinomorus lacunosus ; Kimura et al . 2007 ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Atherinomorus lacunosus ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867 , as Atherina Forskalii ; Abu El-Regal et al . 2014 ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Atherina pinguis ), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835 , as Atherina pectoralis ; Giglioli 1889 , as Atherina Forskalii ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775 , as Atherina hepsetus ; see Fricke 2008 ; Kimura et al . 2007 ). General distribution: Red Sea endemic. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Norman 1927 , as Atherina pinguis ; Kimura et al . 2007 ). Atherinomorus lacunosus (Forster in Bloch & Schneider 1801) Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870 , as Atherina pinguis ; Abu El-Regal et al . 2014 ), Eritrea ( Botros 1971 , as Atherina pinguis ; Bucciarelli et al . 2002 ), Saudi Arabia ( Smith 1965a , as Pranesus pinguis ruppelli ; Gladstone 2002 ; Kimura et al . 2007 ). General distribution: Red Sea , Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago . * Hypoatherina gobio ( Klunzinger 1884 ) Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952 ), Israel ( Smith 1965a , as Allanetta afra ; Golani & Lerner 2007 , as Hypoatherina temminckii ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870 , as Atherina cylindrica ; Klunzinger 1884 , as Atherina gobio ; Sasaki & Kimura 2014 ), Eritrea ( Sasaki & Kimura 2014 ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Atherina afra ). General distribution: Red Sea endemic. * Hypoatherina golanii Sasaki & Kimura 2012 Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Sasaki & Kimura 2012 ), Israel ( Sasaki & Kimura 2012 ). Red Sea main basin: ¯ Remark: Previous records of Hypoatherina barnesi (non Schultz 1953) are based on this species (see Sasaki & Kimura 2012 ). General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.