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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1
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1
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MOBULIDAE
Mobula alfredi
(Krefft 1868)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea
main basin:
Sudan
(
Kessel
et al
. 2017
, as
Manta alfredi
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Braun
et al
. 2015
, as
Manta alfredi
).
General distribution:
Eastern Atlantic;
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to
Hawaiian Islands
and Tuamotu Archipelago
.
Mobula birostris
(Walbaum 1792)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968, as
Manta ehrenbergi
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Gohar & Bayoumi 1959, as
Manta ehrenbergi
),
Sudan
(
Tortonese 1956, as
Manta birostris ehrenbergi
),
Eritrea
(
Tortonese 1956, as
Manta birostris ehrenbergi
),
Saudi Arabia
(Klausewitz 1967, as
Manta birostris
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical seas.
Mobula kuhlii
(Müller & Henle 1841)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997, as
Mobula diabolus
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Gohar & Bayoumi 1959
),
Eritrea
(
Tortonese 1956
, as
Mobula diabolus
;
Randall 1994c
, as
Mobula thurstoni
;
Notarbartolo-di-Sciara
et al
. 2016
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Spaet & Berumen 2015
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
and New
Guinea
.
Remark:
Red Sea
records of
Mobula eregoodootenkee
are based on this species (see
White & Last 2016c
).
Mobula tarapacana
(Philippi 1892)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Notarbartolo-di-Sciara
et al
. 2016
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Mobula thurstoni
(Lloyd 1908)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Notarbartolo-di-Sciara
et al
. 2016
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Notarbartolo-di-Sciara
et al
. 2016
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical seas.