SIGANIDAE, Richardson, 1837

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 : 168-169

SIGANIDAE

Siganus argenteus (Quoy & Gaimard 1825)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Siganus rostratus ; Woodland 1990), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Amphacanthus rostratus ); Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Amphacanthus rostratus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Wake Atoll and Pitcairn.

Siganus luridus ( Rüppell 1829)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Rüppell 1829, as Amphacanthus luridus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Woodland 1990), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia 1964; Paperna 1972a), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Rüppell 1871, as Amphacanthus luridus ), Sudan ( Fowler 1931), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Amphacanthus luridus ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf to Comores, Madagascar and western Mascarenes.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966; Woodland 1990).

Siganus rivulatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Rüppell 1829, as Amphacanthus siganus; Tortonese 1948).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952, as Teuthis rivulatus ), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), (Kimmerling et al. 2017, as Siganus sutor ), Jordan ( Bouchon et al. 1981).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Amphacanthus sigan.), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Amphacanthus siganus), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scarus rivulatus and Scarus sidjan ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa to Persian Gulf.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966; Woodland 1990).

Siganus stellatus (Forsskål 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Eritrea ( Botros 1971, as Teuthis stellata ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Paperna 1972a), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Amphacanthus stellatus ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Amphacanthus stellatus ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scarus stellatus ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Indonesia.