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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PRIACANTHIDAE
Priacanthus blochii
Bleeker 1853
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(
Randall 1994c
).
General distribution:
Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden and
Seychelles
east to
Philippines
and
Samoa
.
Priacanthus hamrur
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952
),
Jordan
(
Bouchon
et al
. 1981
),
Debelius 2007
, as
Heteropriacanthus cruentatus
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1870
),
Sudan
(
Krupp 1990
),
Eritrea
(Tortonese 1935),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Sciaena hamrur
; see
Fricke 2008
),
Yemen
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Sciaena hamrur
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to
Marquesas
and
Gambier islands
.
Remark:
Two specimens were recorded in the Mediterranean (Erguden
et al
. in press).
Rriacanthus
prolixus
Starnes, 1988
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Northwestern Indian Ocean:
Somalia
east to
Pakistan
.
Remark:
This species has not been recorded from the
Red Sea
but was recorded from the Mediterranean (
Gürlek
et al
. 2017
). Since its northwestern Indian Ocean distribution it is evidently occurring in the
Red Sea
.
Priacanthus sagittarius
Starnes 1988
Red Sea:
Egypt
(
Haroun
et al
. 2017
).
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Baranes & Golani 1993
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf 2004
).
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific:
Réunion
east to southern
Japan
,
Philippines
and
Samoa
.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean (see
Golani
et al
. 2011c
).
Pristigenys refulgens
(Valenciennes 1862)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(Ben-Tuvia in
Dor 1984
, as
Pristigenys niphonia
),
Israel
(
Baranes & Golani 1993
, as
Pristigenys niphonia
;
Iwatsuki
et al
. 2012
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf 2004, as
Pristigenys niphonia
).
Red Sea
main basin:
southern
Red Sea
(
Iwatsuki
et al
. 2012
)
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Indonesia
and southern
Japan
.