Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775)

Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, Zootaxa 5330 (2), pp. 201-226 : 206

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8253094
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scientific name	Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775)
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3. Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775) View in CoL View at ENA ―Milkfish― Native

Taxonomy. Original description: Mugil chanos Fabricius,1775:74 , xiv [ Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea (not Mediterranean Sea); Holotype: ZMUC P17154 (dry skin) ]. Synonyms: Chanos arabicus Lacepède, 1803 View in CoL .

Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Saudi Arabia in original description by Forsskål (1775), subsequently reported from Oman by Esmaeili et al. (2022).

General distribution. Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar, Mascarenes and Persian Gulf east to Hawaiian Islands, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales ( Australia) and Norfolk Island; eastern Pacific: southern California ( U.S.A.) south to northern Peru, including Galapagos Islands ( Ecuador); Mediterranean Sea immigrant. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia: coastal area of Jeddah; Oman: Wadi Hasik, Dhofar Governorate, and probably several other coastal area of the Arabian Peninsula.

Economic importance. Commercially important.

Conservation. Least Concern (LC).