MYCTOPHIDAE, Gill, 1893

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 : 36

MYCTOPHIDAE

Benthosema fibulatum (Gilbert & Cramer 1897)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Yemen ( Kotthaus 1972).

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

Benthosema pterotum (Alcock 1890)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Aron & Goodyear 1969, as Benthosema pterota ), Jordan ( Post & Svoboda 1980).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Aron & Goodyear 1969, as Benthosema pterota ), Sudan ( Dypvik & Kaartvedt 2013), Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia ( Aron & Goodyear 1969, as Benthosema pterota ), ( Dypvik & Kaartvedt 2013). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to southrn Japan, Philippines and New Guinea.

Diaphus coeruleus ( Klunzinger 1871)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Aron & Goodyear 1969), Jordan ( Post & Svoboda 1980).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Scopelus coeruleus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to New Guinea and New Caledonia.