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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DIODONTIDAE
Cyclichthys orbicularis
(Bloch 1785)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as
Cyclichthys orbicularis
).
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(
Kotthaus 1979, as
Chilomycterus orbicularis
),
Yemen
(
Kotthaus 1979, as
Chilomycterus orbicularis
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Japan
,
Philippines
and
New Caledonia
.
Cyclichthys spilostylus
(
Leis & Randall 1982
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Leis & Randall 1982
),
Israel
(
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955
, as
Cyclichthys echinatus
;
Leis & Randall 1982
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Debelius 2007
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo Pacific: East Africa east to southern
Japan
,
Philippines
and
New Caledonia
; Galápagos Archipelago.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Golani 1993
, as
Chilomycterus spilostylus
).
Diodon holocanthus
Linnaeus 1758
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(Tortonese 1935, as
Diodon holacanthus
);
Kotthaus 1979
, as
Diodon paraholocanthus
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Diodon hystrix
Linnaeus 1758
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871
),
Eritrea
(Tortonese 1935),
Saudi Arabia
(
Tortonese 1983
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Diodon liturosus
Shaw 1804
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2011a
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2011a
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern
Japan
and Society Islands.