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

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9D80FE28-D378-4C7D-87D7-380F6B583BC1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5962532

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/865687AC-8EC0-44A0-FF0F-0BF4FB817CE8

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Plazi

scientific name

SIGANIDAE
status

 

SIGANIDAE View in CoL View at ENA

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) View in CoL

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

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) View in CoL

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Siganidae

Loc

SIGANIDAE

Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald 2018
2018
Loc

Siganus luridus ( Rüppell 1829 )

Ruppell 1829
1829
Loc

Siganus rivulatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775 )

Forsskal in Niebuhr 1775
1775
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