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
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-05
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CARANGIDAE
Alectis ciliaris
(Bloch 1788)
Red Sea:
Egypt
(
Haroun
et al
. 2017
).
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1830, as
Citula ciliaris
),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1830, as
Blepharis fasciatus
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical seas.
Alectis indica
(Rüppell 1830)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Caranx gallus
),
Eritrea
(Cuvier in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1833
, as
Scyris indica
),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1830, as
Scyris indicus
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998, as
Alectis indicus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Tuamotu Archipelago.
Alepes djedaba
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scomber djedaba
; see
Fricke 2008
)
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea
main basin:
Sudan
(
Fowler 1931, as
Caranx djeddaba
),
Eritrea
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968, as
Atule djeddaba
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scomber djedaba
; see
Fricke 2008
),
Yemen
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scomber djedaba
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to
Hawaiian Islands
.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Ben-Tuvia 1966
, as
Atule djeddaba
).
Alepes vari
(
Cuvier 1833
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Lieske & Myers 2010
),
Yemen
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2011a
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
and
Solomon Islands
.
Atule mate
(
Cuvier 1833
)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Bayoumi 1972, as
Caranx mate
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1884, as
Caranx affinis
),
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1836, as
Caranx affinis
; Tortonese 1935, as
Caranx mate
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands,
Samoa
and
Tonga
.
Carangoides armatus
(Rüppell 1830)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971, as
Caranx armatus
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(Tortonese 1935, as
Caranx armatus
),
Sudan
(
Bamber 1915, as
Caranx armatus
),
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1830, as
Citula ciliaria
; Cuvier in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1833
, as
Olistus ruppellii
;
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2017b
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2017b
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Gulf of
Thailand
and southern
China
.
Carangoides bajad
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Caranx fulvoguttatus
var.
flava
),
Eritrea
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968
, Clark
et al
. 1968, as
Caranx auroguttatus
;
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2017b
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Gladstone 2002
;
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2017b
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
.
Carangoides chrysophrys
(
Cuvier 1833
)
Red Sea:
Egypt
(
Haroun
et al
. 2017
).
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2017b
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
and
Fiji
.
Carangoides coeruleopinnatus
(Rüppell 1830)
Red Sea:
Egypt
(
Haroun
et al
. 2017
).
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1830, as
Caranx coeruleopinnatus
;
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2017b
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Samoa
and
Tonga
.
Carangoides equula
(Temminck & Schlegel 1844)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Baranes & Golani 1993
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Southeastern Atlantic:
South Africa
; Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific:
South Africa
east to Hawaiian Islands and Easter Island.
Carangoides ferdau
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Fowler & Steinitz 1956
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Caranx ferdau
),
Sudan
(
Botros 1971, as
Caranx ferdau
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scomber ferdau
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Line islands and
Pitcairn
Group.
Carangoides fulvoguttatus
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2017b
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Caranx fulvoguttatus
and
C. bleekeri
),
Sudan
(
Bamber 1915, as
Caranx bleekeri
),
Eritrea
(
Borsieri 1904
),
Saudi Arabia
(Klausewitz 1967),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Palau
and
Vanuatu
.
Carangoides malabaricus
(Bloch & Schneider 1801)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(
Klunzinger 1871
, as
Caranx talamparoides
;
Klunzinger 1884
, as
Caranx impudicus
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
, as
Carangoides chrysophrys
;
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2017b
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
and New
Guinea
.
Carangoides plagiotaenia
Bleeker 1857
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871
, as
Caranx brevicarinatus
;
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2017b
),
Sudan
(
Botros 1971, as
Caranx compressus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Marshall Islands
,
Tonga
and
Samoa
.
Carangoides talamparoides
Bleeker 1852
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
, as
Carangoides armatus
;
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2017b
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to southern
Japan
,
Guam
and New
Guinea
.
Caranx heberi
(Bennett 1830)
Red Sea:
Egypt
(
Haroun
et al
. 2017
).
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Krupp 2003
).
Red Sea
main basin: -
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Fiji
.
Caranx ignobilis
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Caranx sansun
),
Eritrea
(
Ben-Tuvia 1968
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scomber ignobilis
; see
Fricke 2008
),
Yemen
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scomber ignobilis
and
S. sansun
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Line islands and
Pitcairn
Group.
Caranx melampygus
Cuvier 1833
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Caranx bixanthopterus
),
Sudan
(
Botros 1971
),
Saudi Arabia
(Rüppell 1836, as
Caranx bixanthopterus
;
Gladstone 2002
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998, as
Caranx melanpygus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to
Panama
.
Caranx sexfasciatus
Quoy & Gaimard 1825
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Caranx hippus
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Gladstone 2002
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to Hawaiian and
Marquesas islands
.
Decapterus kurroides
Bleeker 1855
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Kimura
et al
. 2013
).
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern
Japan
and
Philippines
.
Decapterus macarellus
(
Cuvier 1833
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1884, as
Decapterus jacobaeus
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Decapterus macrosoma
Bleeker 1851
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
El-Ganainy
et al
2005
).
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea
main basin:
¯
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to
Panama
.
Decapterus russelli
(Rüppell 1830)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(Rüppell 1830, as
Caranx russelli
;
Demidov & Viskrebentsev 1970
, as
Decapterus kiliche
;
Kimura
et al
. 2013
).
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Baranes & Golani 1993
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(Demidow &
Viskrebentsev 1970
, as
Decapterus kiliche
),
Sudan
(
Fowler 1931
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
and
Fiji
.
Remark:
Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see
Ben-Tuvia 1966
, as
Caranx kiliche
; Golani 2006).
Elagatis bipinnulata
(Quoy & Gaimard 1825)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Debelius 2007
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Seriolichthys bipinnulata
),
Sudan
(
Krupp 1990
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Gnathanodon speciosus
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1817, as
Caranx petaurista
;
Gruvel 1936
, as
Caranx speciosus
).
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Caranx speciosus
),
Sudan
(
Debelius 2007
),
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1830, as
Caranx petaurista
; Cuvier in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1833
, as
Caranx speciosus
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scomber speciosus
; see
Fricke 2008
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to
Panama
.
Megalaspis cordyla
(Linnaeus 1758)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Caranx rottleri
),
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1830, as
Caranx rottleri
; Ben-
Tuvia 1968
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Marshall Islands
and
Samoa
.
Naucrates ductor
(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
(
Borsieri 1904
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Parastromateus niger
(Bloch 1795)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
),
Yemen
(Heda
et al
. 1998).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
.
Scomberoides commersonnianus
Lacepède 1801
Red Sea:
Egypt
(
Haroun
et al
. 2017
).
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Saudi Arabia
(
Gladstone 2002
),
Yemen
(Cuvier in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1832
, as
Chorinemus exoletus
).
General distribution:
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
.
Scomberoides lysan
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Chorinemus toloo
and
C. lysan
),
Eritrea
(
Rüppell 1829
, as
Lichia toloo-parah
; Cuvier in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1832
, as
Chorinemus moadetta
),
Saudi Arabia
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scomber lysan
; see
Fricke 2008
),
Yemen
(Forsskål in
Niebuhr 1775
, as
Scomber lysan
; see
Fricke 2008
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to
Hawaiian Islands
.
Selar crumenophthalmus
(Bloch 1793)
Gulf of
Suez
:
Egypt
(
Tortonese 1948
).
Gulf
of
Aqaba
:
¯
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Caranx macrophthalmus
),
Eritrea
(Rüppell 1830, as
Caranx macrophthamus
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Seriola dumerili
(Risso 1810)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of
Aqaba
:
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Seriola aureo-vittata
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Tortonese 1983
).
General distribution:
Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific.
Seriolina nigrofasciata
(
Rüppell 1829
)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Israel
(
Fowler & Steinitz 1956, as
Seriola nigrofasciata
),
Jordan
(
Khalaf & Disi 1997
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Seriola nigrofasciata
),
Eritrea
(
Rüppell 1829, as
Nomeus nigrofasciatus
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Bogorodsky
et al
. 2014b
).
General distribution:
Southeastern Atlantic; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to
Philippines
.
Trachinotus baillonii
(Lacepède 1801)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯
Gulf of Aqaba:
Egypt
(
Botros 1971, as
Trachynotus Baillonii
).
Red Sea main basin:
Egypt
(
Klunzinger 1871, as
Trachynotus baillonii
),
Eritrea
(
Rüppell 1829, as
Cäsiomorus quadripunctatus
),
Saudi Arabia
(Klausewitz 1967, as
Trachinotus bailloni
).
General distribution:
Red Sea
, Indo-West Pacific:
East Africa
east to
northern Line
and
Gambier islands
.
Trachinotus blochii
(Lacepède 1801)
Gulf
of
Suez
:
¯