NEMIPTERIDAE

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 : 94-95

NEMIPTERIDAE

Nemipterus bipunctatus (Valenciennes 1830)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937, as Synagris filamentosus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Synagris filamentosus ), Saudi Arabia (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830b, as Dentex bipunctatus ).

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

Nemipterus japonicus (Bloch 1791)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Bayoumi 1972; Diamant & Porter 1983).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Diamant & Porter 1983).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Rüppell 1829, as Cantharus filamentosus ; Tortonese 1947a), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1974b).

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

Nemipterus peronii (Valenciennes 1830)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936, as Synagris tolu ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Synagris tolu ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Philippines and Vanuatu.

Nemipterus randalli Russell 1986

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan ( Khalaf & Zajonz 2007).

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

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani and Sonin 2006, as Nemipterus japonicus ; Stern et al. 2014a).

Nemipterus zysron (Bleeker 1857)

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

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Golani, 1999).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (new record, based on HUJ 20285, idenified by D. Golani).

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

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

Parascolopsis aspinosa (Rao & Rao 1981)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Russell & Golani 1993), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to Andaman Sea.

* Parascolopsis baranesi Russell & Golani 1993

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993, as Parascolopsis sp. 1 and Parascolopsis sp. 2; Russell & Golani 1993).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.

Parascolopsis eriomma ( Jordan & Richardson 1909)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Bayoumi 1972).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993; Russell & Golani 1993), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Russell & Golani 1993).

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

Scolopsis bimaculatus Rüppell 1828

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Scolpsis bimaculatus ), Sudan ( Debelius 2007), Eritrea (Rüppell 1828), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Sri Lanka and Bay of Bengal ( India).

Scolopsis ghanam (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Scolopsides ghanam ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel: Israel (Golani & Diamant, 1999), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Scolopsides ghanam ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena ghanam ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena ghanam ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Andaman Islands.

Scolopsis taeniata (Cuvier 1830)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Scolopsides taeniatus ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Scolopsis taeniatus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to Sri Lanka.

Scolopsis vosmeri (Bloch 1792)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Scolpsis vosmeri ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1828, as Scolopsis kurite ; Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Scolopsides ruppelii ; Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

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