DIODONTIDAE

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 : 183-184

DIODONTIDAE

Cyclichthys orbicularis (Bloch 1785)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Kotthaus 1979, as Chilomycterus orbicularis ), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1979, as Chilomycterus orbicularis ).

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

Cyclichthys spilostylus ( Leis & Randall 1982)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Leis & Randall 1982), Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Cyclichthys echinatus ; Leis & Randall 1982), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Philippines and New Caledonia; Galápagos Archipelago.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1993, as Chilomycterus spilostylus ).

Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Diodon holacanthus ); Kotthaus 1979, as Diodon paraholocanthus ).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Diodon hystrix Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983). General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Diodon liturosus Shaw 1804

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Bogorodsky et al. 2011a). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Bogorodsky et al. 2011a).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Society Islands.