MYCTOPHIDAE, Gill, 1893

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 : 36

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Benthosema fibulatum (Gilbert & Cramer 1897)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Yemen ( Kotthaus 1972).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Marquesas islands.

Benthosema pterotum (Alcock 1890)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Aron & Goodyear 1969, as Benthosema pterota ), Jordan ( Post & Svoboda 1980).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Aron & Goodyear 1969, as Benthosema pterota ), Sudan ( Dypvik & Kaartvedt 2013), Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia ( Aron & Goodyear 1969, as Benthosema pterota ), ( Dypvik & Kaartvedt 2013). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to southrn Japan, Philippines and New Guinea.

Diaphus coeruleus ( Klunzinger 1871) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Aron & Goodyear 1969), Jordan ( Post & Svoboda 1980).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Scopelus coeruleus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to New Guinea and New Caledonia.

References

Aron, W. & Goodyear, R. H. (1969) Fishes collected during a midwater trawling survey of the Gulf of Elat and the Red Sea. Israel Journal of Zoology, 18, 237 - 244.

Dypvik, E. & Kaartvedt, S. (2013) Vertical migration and diel feeding periodicity of the skinnycheek lanternfish (Benthosema pterotum) in the Red Sea. Deep-Sea Research, 72, 9 - 16. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr. 2012.10.012

Klunzinger, C. B. (1871) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. II. Theil. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 21, 441 - 688.

Kotthaus, A. (1972) Fische des Indischen Ozeans. Ergebnisse der ichthyologischen Untersuchungen wahrend der Expedition des Forschungsschiffes ' Meteor' in des Indischen Ozean, Oktober 1964 bis Mai 1965. A. Systematischer Teil, IX Iniomi (Nachtrag: Fam. Myctophidae). Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie, 12, 12 - 35.

Post, A. & Svoboda, A. (1980) Stransfunde mesopelagischer Fische aus dem Golf von Aqaba. Archiv fur Fischereiwissenschaft, 30 (2 / 3), 137 - 143.