SPHYRAENIDAE, Rafinesque, 1815

Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2018, Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants, Zootaxa 4509 (1), pp. 1-215 : 120-121

SPHYRAENIDAE

Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards 1771)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Sphyraena agam ; Abu El-Regal et al. 2014), Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Sphyraena affinis ; Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific (waifs reaching Galápagos Archipelago).

Sphyraena flavicauda Rüppell 1838

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), Israel ( Golani & Lerner 2007), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838; Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005, as Sphyraena obtusata ), Sudan ( Debelius 2007), ( Lieske & Myers 2010),.

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and New Guinea.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).

Sphyraena forsteri Cuvier 1829

Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al. 2017).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Society and Marquesas islands.

Sphyraena iburiensis Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Doiuchi et al. 2011).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Pacific: Japan.

Sphyraena jello Cuvier 1829

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870), Sudan ( Botros 1971), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Fiji and Tonga.

Sphyraena obtusata Cuvier 1829

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Chabanaud 1934).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870), Eritrea ( Botros 1971).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Samoa.

Sphyraena pinguis Günther 1874: 157

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Golani & Lerner 2007, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ), Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: South Africa and Persian Gulf east to Australia and Japan.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia ).

Sphyraena putnamae Jordan & Seale 1905

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Sphyraena putnamiae ).

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Fiji and Tuvalu.

Sphyraena qenie Klunzinger 1870

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870), Sudan ( Debelius 2007), Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.