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
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10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1
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EXOCOETIDAE
Cheilopogon cyanopterus
(Valenciennes 1847)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Exocoetus bahiensis
);
Eritrea
(
Tortonese 1957, as
Cypselurus altipennis
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Cypselurus hexazona
(Bleeker 1853)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea
main basin:
Sudan
(
Parin & Bogorodsky 2011
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Marshall Islands
.
Parexocoetus brachypterus
(Richardson 1846)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(
Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical seas, but not in eastern Pacific.
Parexocoetus mento
(Valenciennes 1847)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971, as
Exocoetus gryllus
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971, as
Exocoetus gryllus
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Exocoetus gryllus
),
Sudan
(
Botros 1971, as
Exocoetus gryllus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Marshall Islands
and
Fiji
.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Ben-Tuvia 1966
).