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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CAESIONIDAE
Caesio caerulaurea
Lacepède 1801
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971, as
Caesio caerulaureus
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Carpenter 1987
),
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as
Caesio caerulaureus
);
Jordan
(Bouchon
et al
., as
Caesio coerulaureus
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1870, as
Caesio coerulaureus
),
Sudan
(
Debelius 2007
),
Eritrea
(
Borsieri 1904, as
Caesio coerulaureus
),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1830, as
Caesio azuraureus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to Marshall, Tuamotu and
Marquesas islands
.
Caesio lunaris
Cuvier 1830
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1870
),
Sudan
(
Bamber 1915
),
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1838;
Carpenter 1987
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Marshall Islands
and
Fiji
.
Caesio striata
Rüppell 1830
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Carpenter 1987
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf 2004
).
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1830, as
Caesio striatus
),
Sudan
(
Carpenter 1987
),
Ethiopia
(
Carpenter 1987
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Carpenter 1987
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
,
northwestern Indian Ocean
:
Gulf
of
Aden
.
*
Caesio suevica
Klunzinger 1884
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Carpenter 1987
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1884, as
Caesio suevicus
),
Sudan
(
Carpenter 1987
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
endemic.
Caesio varilineata
Carpenter 1987
Red Sea:
Egypt
(
Haroun
et al
. 2017
).
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Debelius 2007
),
Sudan
(
Krupp 1990
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indian Ocean:
East Africa
east to western
Sumatra and Java
.
Caesio xanthonota
Bleeker 1853
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Yemen
(
Randall 1994c
).
General distribution:
Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Indonesia
.
Dipterygonotus balteatus
(Valenciennes, 1830)
General distribution:
Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
and
Solomon Islands
.
Remark:
This species has not been recorded from the
Red Sea
but was recorded from the Mediterranean (
Bariche & Fricke, 2018
). Since its wide Indo-Pacific distribution including the
Gulf
of
Aden
, it is evidently occurring in the
Red Sea
.
Gymnocaesio gymnoptera
(Bleeker 1856)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Debelius 2007
),
Sudan
(
Carpenter 1987
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Carpenter 1987
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
and
Fiji
.
Pterocaesio chrysozona
(Cuvier 1830)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Carpenter 1987
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Debelius 2007
),
Yemen
(
Kotthaus 1975
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
and
Samoa
.