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 XENISTHMIDAE * Gymnoxenisthmus tigrellus Gill, Bogorodsky & Mal 2014 Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Gill et al . 2014 ). General distribution: Red Sea endemic. Xenisthmus balius Gill & Randall 1994 Gulf of Suez : Egypt ( Gill et al . 2017 ). Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Gill et al . 2017 ). Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Gill et al . 2017 ), Saudi Arabia ( Gill et al . 2017 ). General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf. * Xenisthmus oligoporus Gill, Bogorodsky & Mal 2017 Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba : ¯ Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Gill et al . 2017 ). General distribution: Red Sea endemic. Xenisthmus polyzonatus ( Klunzinger 1871 ) Gulf of Suez : ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Gill et al . 2017 ). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Eleotris polyzonatus ), Eritrea ( Gill et al . 2017 ), Saudi Arabia ( Gill et al . 2017 ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Maldives east to Northern Marianas, Tonga , Samoa and Marquesas Islands.