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
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-05
4509
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journal article
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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
.