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 SPHYRAENIDAE Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards 1771) Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997 ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870 , as Sphyraena agam ; Abu El-Regal et al . 2014 ), Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968 ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Sphyraena affinis ; Tortonese 1983 ), Yemen (Heda et al . 1998). General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific (waifs reaching Galápagos Archipelago). Sphyraena flavicauda Rüppell 1838 Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Debelius 2007 ), Israel ( Golani & Lerner 2007 ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997 ). Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838; Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005 , as Sphyraena obtusata ), Sudan ( Debelius 2007 ), ( Lieske & Myers 2010 ),. General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and New Guinea . Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998 ). Sphyraena forsteri Cuvier 1829 Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al . 2017 ). Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : Jordan ( Khalaf 2004 ). Red Sea main basin: ¯ General distribution: Red Sea , Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Society and Marquesas islands . Sphyraena iburiensis Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005 Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Doiuchi et al . 2011 ). General distribution: Red Sea, western Pacific: Japan . Sphyraena jello Cuvier 1829 Gulf of Suez : Egypt ( El-Ganainy et al 2005 ). Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971 ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870 ), Sudan ( Botros 1971 ), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955 ), Yemen (Heda et al . 1998). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Fiji and Tonga . Sphyraena obtusata Cuvier 1829 Gulf of Suez : Egypt ( Chabanaud 1934 ). Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952 ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870 ), Eritrea ( Botros 1971 ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Samoa . Sphyraena pinguis Günther 1874: 157 Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Golani & Lerner 2007, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ), Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ), Yemen (Heda et al . 1998, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: South Africa and Persian Gulf east to Australia and Japan . Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966 , as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ). Sphyraena putnamae Jordan & Seale 1905 Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Sphyraena putnamiae ). Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al . 2014b ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Fiji and Tuvalu . Sphyraena qenie Klunzinger 1870 Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870 ), Sudan ( Debelius 2007 ), Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968 ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama .