SCOMBRIDAE, , 1815

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 : 170-171

SCOMBRIDAE

Auxis thazard (Lacepède 1800)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia 1968), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in East Pacific.

Euthynnus affinis (Cantor 1849)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Demidov & Viskrebentsev 1970).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Euthynnus alletteratus ; Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Thynnus thunnina ; Haroun et al. 2017), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Gymnosarda alletterata ; Ben-Tuvia 1968), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Grammatorcynus bilineatus (Rüppell 1836)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Thynnus bilineatus ), Sudan ( Botros 1971), Eritrea (Rüppell 1836, as Thynnus bilineatus ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Grammatorcynus bicarinatus ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga.

Gymnosarda unicolor (Rüppell 1836)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Pelamys nuda ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Thynnus unicolor ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to French Polynesia and Marquesas Islands.

Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936, as Euthynnus pelamys ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Euthynnus pelamis ), Jordan ( Marshall 1952, as Euthynnus pelamis ).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier 1816)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia 1968), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Scomber kanagurta ), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Scomber Kanagurta ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1836, as Scomber chrysozonus and S. microlepidotus ; Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia ( Rüppell 1829, as Scomber kanagurta ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Collette 1970).

Sarda orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel 1844)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia 1968), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Scomber australasicus Cuvier 1832

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Mehanna 2004, as Scomber japonicus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Scomber japonicus ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Scomber japonicus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Scomber janesaba ); Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Scomber japonicus ).

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

Remark: Red Sea materials previously recorded as Scomber japonicus (non Houttuyn 1782) are based on this species (see Baker & Collette 1998).

Scomberomorus commerson (Lacepède 1800)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Bayoumi 1972, as Scomberomorus commersoni ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia 1968), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Cybium commersonii ), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1829, as Cybium commersonii ; Ben-Tuvia 1968), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983, as Scombermorus commersoni ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

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

Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre 1788)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf et al. 1996).

Red Sea main basin: -

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas.

Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre 1788)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Germo albacora ), Jordan ( Marshall 1952, as Thynnus albacora ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Thunnus tonggol (Bleeker 1851)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968).

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