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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KYPHOSIDAE
Kyphosus bigibbus
Lacepède 1801
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(Rüppell 1836, as
Pimelepterus fuscus
;
El-Ganainy
et al
2005
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Martens 1867, as
Pimelepterus fuscus
),
Sudan
(
Fowler 1931
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Tortonese 1983
).
General distribution:
Atlantic Ocean; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern
Japan
,
Indonesia
and northern
New Zealand
.
Kyphosus cinerascens
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
El-Ganainy
et al
2005
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1870, as
Pimelepterus tahmel
),
Sudan
(
Fowler 1931
),
Eritrea
(
Picaglia 1895, as
Pimelepterus tahmel
),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1836, as
Pimelepterus tahmel
).
General distribution:
South Atlantic;
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to
Hawaiian Islands
and
Line islands
and
Easter Island
.
Kyphosus vaigiensis
(Quoy & Giamard 1825)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971, as
Pimelepterus waigiensis
),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1836, as
Pimelepterus marciac
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to Hawaiian, Line and
Marquesas islands
.