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 CLUPEIDAE Amblygaster sirm (Walbaum 1792) Gulf of Suez : Egypt ( Bertin 1943, as Sardinella sirm ). Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Clupea liogaster ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea sirm ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al . 2014b ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to northern Gilbert Islands ( Kiribati ), Samoa and Tonga . Herklotsichthys punctatus (Rüppell 1837) Gulf of Suez : Egypt ( Tillier 1902, as Harengula punctata ). Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Whitehead 1965 ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997 ). Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Whitehead 1965 ), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847a , as Harengula punctata ), Saudi Arabia ( Whitehead 1965 ). General distribution: Red Sea , northwestern Indian Ocean : Gulf of Aden . Remark: Lessepsian migrant in eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1977 ). Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus (Rüppell 1837) Gulf of Suez : Egypt ( Tillier 1902, as Clupea quadrimaculata ). Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani et al . 2008), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004 ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Clupea venenosa ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Clupea moluccensis ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea quadrimaculata ), Saudi Arabia ( Gladstone 2002 ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines , Samoa and Tonga . Sardinella albella (Valenciennes 1847) Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al . 2017 ). Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea kowal ; Bogorodsky et al . 2014b ), Eritrea ( Giglioli 1889 , as Clupea kowal ; Whitehead 1965 , as Sardinella fimbriata ; Stern et al . 2016 ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to New Guinea . Sardinella gibbosa (Bleeker 1849) Gulf of Suez : Egypt ( Chabanaud 1933 , as Harengula dollfusi ; Stern et al . 2014b ). Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Stern et al . 2014b ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines . Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Stern et al . 2014b ). Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes 1847 Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Bogorodsky et al . 2011a ). General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Somalia and Gulf of Aden east to India . Spratelloides delicatulus (Bennett 1832) Gulf of Suez : Egypt ( Budker & Fourmanoir 1954 ). Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Whitehead 1965 ), Israel ( Fowler & Steinitz 1956 ), Jordan ( Froukh 2001 , Khalaf 2004 ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Marshall 1952 ), Sudan ( Botros 1971 ), Eritrea ( Whitehead 1965 ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Stolephorus delicatulus ). General distribution: Red Sea , Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago . Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998 ). Spratelloides gracilis (Temminck & Schlegel 1846) Gulf of Suez : Egypt ( Chabanaud 1932 ). Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Whitehead 1965 ), Israel ( Whitehead 1965 ), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004 ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871 ), Eritrea ( Borsieri 1904 ), Saudi Arabia ( Isari et al . 2017 , as Sprateloides gracilis ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Tuamotu Archipelago.