EPHIPPIDAE, Bleeker, 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 : 107

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EPHIPPIDAE

Platax boersii Bleeker 1853

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Lieske & Myers 2010 as Platax boersi ).

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

Platax orbicularis (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Platax vespertilio ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Platax vespertilio ), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1829, as Platax albipunctatus ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon orbicularis ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Platax teira (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Botros 1971), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Platax pinnatus ), Saudi Arabia ( Rüppell 1829), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon teira ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Northern Marianas , Solomon and Loyalty islands.

Remark: Two specimens were recorded from the eastern Mediterranean Sea (see Bilecenoglu and Kaya 2006; Golani et al 2011c).

Tripterodon orbis Playfair in Playfair & Günther 1867

References

Bilecenoglu, M. & Kaya, M. (2006) A new alien fish in the Mediterranean Sea- Platax teira (Forsskal, 1775) (Osteichthyes: Ephippidae). Aquatic Invasions, 1 (2), 80 - 83. https: // doi. org / 10.3391 / ai. 2006.1.2.5

Botros, G. A. (1971) Fishes of the Red Sea. Oceanography and Marine Biology, Annual Review, 9, 221 - 348.

Fricke, R. (2008) Authorship, availability and validity of fish names described by Peter (Pehr) Simon Forsskal and Johann Christian Fabricius in the ' Descriptiones animalium' by Carsten Niebuhr in 1775 (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, New Series, 1, 1 - 76.

Golani, D., Sonin, O. & Edelist, D. (2011 c) Second records of the Lessepsian fish migrants Priacanthus sagittarius and Platax teira in the Mediterranean and distribution extension of Tylerius spinosissimus. Aquatic Invasions, 6 (Supplement 1), 7 - 11. [S 7 - S 11] https: // doi. org / 10.3391 / ai. 2011.6. S 1.002

Khalaf, M. A &. Disi, A. M. (1997) Fishes of the Gulf of Aqaba. Publications of the Marine Science Station, Aqaba, 8, 1 - 252.

Klunzinger, C. B. (1870) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. I. Theil. Percoiden-Mugiloiden. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 20, 669 - 834.

Lieske, E. & Myers, R. (2010) Korallenriff-Fuhrer Rotes Meer. 2 nd Edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart, 398 pp.

Niebuhr, C. (1775) Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit ... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. ex officina Molleri, Hauniae, 20 + xxxiv + 164 pp., map.

Ruppell, W. P. E. S. (1828 - 1830) Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika. Fische des Rothen Meers. Heinrich Ludwig Bronner, Frankfurt am Main, 141 + 3 pp., 35 pls. [Part 1 (1828): pp. 1 - 26, pls. 1 - 6; Part 2 (1829), pp. 27 - 94, pls. 7 - 24; Part 3 (1830): pp. 95 - 141, pls. 25 - 35]