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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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1
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RACHYCENTRIDAE
Rachycentron canadum
(Linnaeus 1766)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937, as
Elacate nigra
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1955, as
Rachycentron canadus
),
Jordan
(
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as
Rachycentron canadus
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Elacate nigra
),
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1836, as
Elacate pondiceriana
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Tortonese 1983
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1986
).