HEMIRAMPHIDAE, , 1859

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 : 41-42

HEMIRAMPHIDAE

Euleptorhamphus viridis (van Hasselt 1823)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Parin et al. 1980).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Hemiramphus far (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847b, as Hemiramphus commersonii ; Norman 1927, as Hemirhamphus far ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Farhians far ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847b, as Hemiramphus commersonii ; Picaglia 1895), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Esox marginatus far ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Philippines, Samoa and Tonga.

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

Hemiramphus marginatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Norman 1927, as Hemirhamphus dussumieri ; Chabanaud 1934, as Hemirhamphus marginatus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Hemirhamphus dussumieri ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Sudan ( Botros 1971), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Esox marginatus ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean : Persian Gulf.

Hyporhamphus affinis (Günther 1866)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Chabanaud 1932, as Hemiramphus dussumieri ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Parin et al. 1980).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Hemiramphus dussumieri ; Parin et al. 1980), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Hemiramphus dussumieri ).

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

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

Hyporhamphus balinensis (Bleeker 1859)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Parin et al. 1980), Eritrea ( Parin et al. 1980).

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

Hyporhamphus gamberur (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Hemirhamphus gamberur ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Hemirhamphus gamberur ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Hemirhamphus gamberur ), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Hemirhamphus gamberur ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Hemiramphus gamberur ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève 1956, as Hemiramphus gamberur ).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean : Gulf of Aden.

Oxyporhamphus bruuni Parin, Collette & Shcherbachev 1980

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Parin et al. 1980, as O. convexus bruuni ).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to northwestern India.