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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1
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1
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SCOMBRIDAE
Auxis thazard
(Lacepède 1800)
Red Sea:
Egypt
(
Haroun
et al
. 2017
).
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in East Pacific.
Euthynnus affinis
(Cantor 1849)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Demidov & Viskrebentsev 1970
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952
, as
Euthynnus alletteratus
;
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1884
, as
Thynnus thunnina
;
Haroun
et al
. 2017
),
Eritrea
(Tortonese 1935, as
Gymnosarda alletterata
;
Ben-Tuvia 1968
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Tortonese 1983
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to
Panama
.
Grammatorcynus bilineatus
(Rüppell 1836)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Thynnus bilineatus
),
Sudan
(
Botros 1971
),
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1836, as
Thynnus bilineatus
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as
Grammatorcynus bicarinatus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to
Marshall Islands
,
Samoa
and
Tonga
.
Gymnosarda unicolor
(Rüppell 1836)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Pelamys
nuda
),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1836, as
Thynnus unicolor
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
French Polynesia
and
Marquesas Islands
.
Katsuwonus pelamis
(Linnaeus 1758)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Gruvel 1936, as
Euthynnus pelamys
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as
Euthynnus pelamis
),
Jordan
(
Marshall 1952, as
Euthynnus pelamis
).
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Rastrelliger kanagurta
(Cuvier 1816)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Scomber kanagurta
),
Sudan
(
Botros 1971, as
Scomber Kanagurta
),
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1836, as
Scomber chrysozonus
and
S. microlepidotus
; Tortonese 1935),
Saudi Arabia
(
Rüppell 1829, as
Scomber kanagurta
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Samoa
.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Collette 1970
).
Sarda orientalis
(Temminck & Schlegel 1844)
Red Sea:
Egypt
(
Haroun
et al
. 2017
).
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to
Panama
.
Scomber australasicus
Cuvier 1832
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Mehanna 2004, as
Scomber japonicus
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968, as
Scomber japonicus
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997, as
Scomber japonicus
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Scomber janesaba
);
Eritrea
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968, as
Scomber japonicus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-Pacific:
East Africa
east to
Hawaiian Islands
.
Remark:
Red Sea
materials previously recorded as
Scomber japonicus
(non Houttuyn 1782) are based on this species (see
Baker & Collette 1998
).
Scomberomorus commerson
(Lacepède 1800)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Bayoumi 1972, as
Scomberomorus commersoni
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Cybium commersonii
),
Eritrea
(
Rüppell 1829
, as
Cybium commersonii
;
Ben-Tuvia 1968
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Tortonese 1983, as
Scombermorus
commersoni
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Palau
and
Fiji
.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Golani 1998
).
Thunnus alalunga
(Bonnaterre 1788)
Red Sea:
Egypt
(
Haroun
et al
. 2017
).
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf
et al
. 1996
).
Red Sea
main basin: -
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas.
Thunnus albacares
(Bonnaterre 1788)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as
Germo albacora
),
Jordan
(
Marshall 1952, as
Thynnus albacora
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Debelius 2007
),
Eritrea
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Thunnus tonggol
(Bleeker 1851)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to New
Guinea
.