EXOCOETIDAE, Risso, 1827

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 : 41

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5962328

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EXOCOETIDAE
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Cheilopogon cyanopterus (Valenciennes 1847)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Exocoetus bahiensis ); Eritrea ( Tortonese 1957, as Cypselurus altipennis ).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Cypselurus hexazona (Bleeker 1853)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Parin & Bogorodsky 2011).

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

Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson 1846)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas, but not in eastern Pacific.

Parexocoetus mento (Valenciennes 1847)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Exocoetus gryllus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Exocoetus gryllus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Exocoetus gryllus ), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Exocoetus gryllus ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Fiji.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966).

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