PLATYCEPHALIDAE

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 : 58-59

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PLATYCEPHALIDAE

Cociella punctata (Cuvier 1829)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Golani, 1999).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993, as Cociella crocodila ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Hassanine 2005, as Cociella crocodila ).

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

Grammoplites suppositus (Troschel 1840)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Knapp 1979), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indian Ocean: Somalia and Persian Gulf east to Sri Lanka.

Onigocia bimaculata Knapp, Imamura & Sakashita 2000

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Knapp et al. 2000), Israel ( Knapp et al. 2000).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Comoros and Mauritius east to Society Islands.

Papilloculiceps longiceps (Cuvier 1829)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Platycephalus tentaculatus ; Gruvel 1936, as Platycephalus longiceps ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Platycephalus tentaculatus ; Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Platycephalus longiceps ), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829b, as Platycephalus longiceps ).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman and Gulf of Aden south to northern South Africa and Madagascar.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).

Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Tillier 1902, as Platycephalus insidiator ; Bayoumi 1972).

Gulf of Aqaba:

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Platycephalus insidiator ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Platycephalus insidiator ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966).

Rogadius pristiger (Cuvier 1829)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Bayoumi 1972, as Platycephalus tuberculatus ; Sabrah et al. 2015, as Rogadius asper ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Platycephalus tuberculatus ; Dor 1970).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Knapp 1979, as Rogadius asper ).

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

Sorsogona prionota (Sauvage 1873)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Knapp 1979).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Kotthaus 1980), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Pakistan.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).

Thysanophrys springeri Knapp 2013

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Knapp 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Knapp 2013), Yemen ( Knapp 2013).

Remark: Red Sea records of Thysanophrys chiltonae (non Schultz 1966) are based on this species (see Knapp 2013).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean : Gulf of Aden.

Bamber, R. C. (1915) Reports on the marine biology of the Sudanese Red Sea, from collections made by Cyril Crossland, M. A., D. Sc., F. L. S. XXII. The Fishes. The Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 31 (210), 477 - 485, pl. 46.

Baranes, A. & Golani, D. (1993) An annotated list of deep-sea fishes collected in the northern Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba. Israel Journal of Zoology, 39, 299 - 336.

Bayoumi, A. R. (1972) Recent biological investigations in the Red Sea along the A. R. E. coasts. 1. On some demersal fishes from the Red Sea with notes on migration of fish through the Suez Canal. Bulletin of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Cairo, 2, 157 - 183.

Ben-Tuvia, A. & Steinitz, H. (1952) Report on a collection of fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Aqaba), Red Sea. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 2, 1 - 12.

Ben-Tuvia, A. (1966) Red Sea fishes recently found in the Mediterranean. Copeia, 1966 (2), 254 - 275. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1441133

Bogorodsky, S. V., Alpermann, T. J., Mal, A. O. & Gabr, M. H. (2014 b) Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea. Zootaxa, 3852 (4), 401 - 437. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3852.4.1

Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. (1829 b) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome quatrieme. Livre quatrieme. Des acanthopterygiens a joue cuirassee. F. G. Levrault, Paris, xxvi + 2 518 pp., pls. 72 - 99, 97 bis. [Cuvier authored volume]

Dor, M. (1970) Contributions to the knowledge of the Red Sea. No. 44. Nouveaux poissons pour la faune de la mer Rouge. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, Haifa, 54, 7 - 28.

Golani, D. & Ben-Tuvia, A. (1990) Two Red Sea flatheads (Platycephalidae), immigrants in the Mediterranean. Cybium, 14 (1), 57 - 61.

Gruvel, A. (1936) Contribution a l'etude de la bionomie generale et de l'exploration de la faune du canal de Suez. Memoires presentees a l'Institut d'Egypte, N. S., 29, 1 - 255, pls. 1 - 25, 1 color pl.

Hassanine, R. M. El-S. (2005) Trematodes from Red Sea fishes: Gibsonius aegyptensis gen. nov., sp. nov. (Lepocreadiidae Oghner, 1905) and Helicometra interrupta sp. nov. (Opecolidae Ozaki, 1925). Acta Parasitologia, 50 (4), 276 - 280.

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.

Knapp, L. W. (1979) Fische des Indischen Ozeans. Ergebnisse der ichthyologischen Untersuchungen wahrend des Expedition des Forschungsschiffes Meteor in den Indischen Ozean, Oktober 1964 bis 1965. A. Systematischer Teil, XXII. Scorpaeniformes (4). Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie, 29, 48 - 54.

Knapp, L. W., Imamura, H. & Sakashita, M. (2000) Onigocia bimaculata, a new species of flathead fish (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae) from the Indo-Pacific. The J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Special Publication, 64, 1 - 10.

Knapp, L. W. (2013) Descriptions of four new species of Thysanophrys (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 3608 (2), 127 - 136. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3608.2.3

Kotthaus, A. (1980) Fische des Indischen Ozeans. Ergebnisse der ichthyologischen Untersuchungen wahrend der Expedition des Forschungsschiffes ' Meteor' in den Indischen Ozean, Oktober 1964 bis 1965. A. Systematischer Teil, XXIV. Teleostei: Zusammenfassung und Gesamtverzeichnis. Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie, 32, 45 - 60.

Picaglia, L. (1895) Pesci del Mar Rosso pescati nella campagna idrografica della Regia Nave Scilla nel 1891 - 92; coll' aggiunta delle specie del Mar Rosso e del Golfo di Aden ... Atti della Societa dei Naturalisti di Modena, Series 3, 13, 22 - 40.

Sabrah, M., Amin, A. & El Sayed, A. (2015) Age, growth and demographic structures of thorny flathead Rogadius asper, Cuvier, 1829 (Pisces, Platycephalidae) from the coastal waters of the Suez Gulf. American Journal of Life Sciences, Special Issue, 2 (6 - 1), 1 - 6.

Tillier, J. - B. (1902) Le canal de Suez et sa faune ichthyologique. Memoires de la Societe oologique de France, 14, 279 - 318, pl. 1. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / MF 01124