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
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CARCHARHINIDAE
Carcharhinus albimarginatus
(Rüppell 1837)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Baranes 2013
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(Rüppell 1837, as
Carcharias albimarginatus
),
Sudan
(
Ninni 1931
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Spaet & Berumen 2015
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to
Panama
.
Carcharhinus altimus
(Springer 1950)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978a
),
Israel
(
Baranes & Golani 1993
).
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(
Spaet & Berumen 2015
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Carcharhinus amboinensis
(Müller & Henle 1839)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(
Spaet & Berumen 2015
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not eastern Pacific.
Carcharhinus brevipinna
(Müller & Henle 1839)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as
Aprionodon brevipinna
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as
Aprionodon brevipinna
and
Carcharhinus maculipinnis
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Spaet & Berumen 2015
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in the eastern Pacific.
Remark:
Not
a Lessepsian migrant as previously reported by
Ben-Tuvia (1966)
(see Golani
et al
. 2002).
Carcharhinus falciformis
(Müller & Henle 1839)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as
Carcharhinus menisorrah
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Klausewitz 1959a
, as
Carcharhinus menisorrah
;
Spaet & Berumen 2015
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical seas.
Carcharhinus limbatus
(Müller & Henle 1839)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Baranes 2013
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Carcharias ehrenbergi
),
Eritrea
(
Tortonese 1956
),
Saudi Arabia
(Spaet
et al
. 2015).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Carcharhinus longimanus
(Poey 1861)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Baranes 2013
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Gohar & Mazhar 1964
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Carcharhinus melanopterus
(Quoy & Gaimard 1824)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971, as
Carcharias melanopterus
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Carcharias melanopterus
),
Sudan
(
Botros 1971, as
Carcharias melanopterus
),
Eritrea
(
Pellegrin 1912, as
Carcharias melanopterus
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Squalus carcharhias minor
; see
Fricke 2008
;
Gladstone 2002
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and
Pitcairn
Group.
Remark:
Not
a Lessepsian migrant as previously reported by
Steinitz (1967)
(see Golani
et al
. 2002).
Carcharhinus obscurus
(LeSueur 1818)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Baranes 2013
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Gohar & Mazhar 1964
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955
).
General distribution:
Nearly circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Carcharhinus plumbeus
(Nardo 1827)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978b
),
Israel
(
Baranes & Golani 1993
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978b
;
Baranes & Wendling 1981
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Spaet & Berumen 2015
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, possibly absent from eastern Pacific.
Carcharhinus sorrah
(Müller & Henle 1839)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Baranes, 2013
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871
, as
Lamna spallanzanii
;
Gohar & Mazhar 1964
),
Sudan
(
Bamber 1915, as
Carcharias bleekeri
),
Saudi Arabia
(Spaet
et al
. 2015).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Solomon Islands
and northern
Vanuatu
.
Carcharhinus wheeleri
Garrick 1982
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Debelius 2007, as
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
),
Sudan
(
Krupp 1990, as
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
),
Eritrea
(
Garrick 1982
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Garrick 1982
;
Spaet & Berumen 2015
, as
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa to
Maldives
and Chagos Archipelago.
Remark:
This species is probably distrinct from
C. amblyrhynchos
(see
Naylor
et al
. 2012
); previous
Red Sea
records of
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
(non Bleeker 1856) are probably based on this species.
Galeocerdo cuvier
(Péron & Lesueur 1822)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Tortonese 1968, as
Galeocerdo cuvieri
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997, as
Galeocerdo cuvieri
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871
, as
Galeocerdo obtusus
;
Gohar & Mazhar 1964
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Spaet & Berumen 2015
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Loxodon macrorhinus
Müller & Henle 1839
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Baranes, 2013
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Baranes, 2013
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Spaet & Berumen 2015
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to New
Guinea
.
Negaprion acutidens
(Rüppell 1837)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Kossmann & Räuber 1877
, as
Carcharias munzingeri
;
Baranes 2013
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971, as
Carcharias acutidens
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Carcharias acutidens
),
Eritrea
(
Picaglia 1895, as
Carcharias acutidens
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Squalus carcharhias gersch
; see
Fricke 2008
;
Spaet & Berumen 2015
);
Yemen
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Squalus carcharhias gersch
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Marshall Islands
and Society Islands.
Rhizoprionodon acutus
(Rüppell 1837)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(Klunzinger 1877, as
Carcharias acutus
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Carcharias acutus
),
Eritrea
(
Springer 1964
),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1837, as
Carcharias acutus
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Scoliodon laticaudus
Müller &Henle 1838
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as
Scoliodon palasorrah
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(Tortonese 1935, as
Scoliodon palasorrah
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
.
Triaenodon obesus
(Rüppell 1837)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Baranes 1973
,
2013
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871
),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1837, as
Carcharias obesus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to
Panama
.