XENISTHMIDAE, Miller, 1973

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 : 165-166

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XENISTHMIDAE View in CoL View at ENA

* Gymnoxenisthmus tigrellus Gill, Bogorodsky & Mal 2014 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Gill et al. 2014).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Xenisthmus balius Gill & Randall 1994 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gill et al. 2017).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Gill et al. 2017).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Gill et al. 2017), Saudi Arabia ( Gill et al. 2017).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf.

* Xenisthmus oligoporus Gill, Bogorodsky & Mal 2017 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Gill et al. 2017).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Xenisthmus polyzonatus ( Klunzinger 1871) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Gill et al. 2017).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Eleotris polyzonatus ), Eritrea ( Gill et al. 2017), Saudi Arabia ( Gill et al. 2017).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Maldives east to Northern Marianas, Tonga, Samoa and Marquesas Islands.

References

Gill, A. C. & Randall, J. E. (1994) Xenisthmus balius, a new species of fish from the Persian Gulf (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 107 (3), 445 - 450.

Gill, A. C., Bogorodsky, S. V. & Mal, A. O. (2014) Gymnoxenisthmus tigrellus, new genus and species of gobioid fish from the Red Sea (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae). Zootaxa, 3755 (5), 491 - 495. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3755.5.9

Gill, A. C., Bogorodsky, S. V. & Mal, A. O. (2017) Review of Red Sea Xenisthmus Snyder (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 4286 (2), 203 - 214. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4286.2.4

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