ATHERINIDAE, Risso, 1827

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 : 43-44

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ATHERINIDAE

* Atherinomorus forskalii (Rüppell 1838)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Atherina pectoralis ; Kimura et al. 2007).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Alanetta forskali; Bucciarelli et al. 2002, as Atherinomorus lacunosus ; Kimura et al. 2007), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Atherinomorus lacunosus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Atherina Forskalii ; Abu El-Regal et al. 2014), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Atherina pinguis ), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Atherina pectoralis ; Giglioli 1889, as Atherina Forskalii ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Atherina hepsetus ; see Fricke 2008; Kimura et al. 2007).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Norman 1927, as Atherina pinguis ; Kimura et al. 2007).

Atherinomorus lacunosus (Forster in Bloch & Schneider 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Atherina pinguis ; Abu El-Regal et al. 2014), Eritrea ( Botros 1971, as Atherina pinguis ; Bucciarelli et al. 2002), Saudi Arabia ( Smith 1965a, as Pranesus pinguis ruppelli ; Gladstone 2002; Kimura et al. 2007).

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

* Hypoatherina gobio ( Klunzinger 1884) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952), Israel ( Smith 1965a, as Allanetta afra ; Golani & Lerner 2007, as Hypoatherina temminckii ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Atherina cylindrica ; Klunzinger 1884, as Atherina gobio ; Sasaki & Kimura 2014), Eritrea ( Sasaki & Kimura 2014), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Atherina afra ).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

* Hypoatherina golanii Sasaki & Kimura 2012 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Sasaki & Kimura 2012), Israel ( Sasaki & Kimura 2012).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

Remark: Previous records of Hypoatherina barnesi (non Schultz 1953) are based on this species (see Sasaki & Kimura 2012).

General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.

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