MULLIDAE, Rafinesque, 1815

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 : 102-103

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Mulloidichthys flavicaudus Fernandez-Silva & Randall 2016

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936, as Mullus flavolineatus View in CoL ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Mulloides flavolineatus ), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Mulloidichthys auriflamma ; Golani & Lerner 2007, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Mullus flavolineatus ; Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus ), Sudan ( Edwards & Rosewell 1981, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus ; Fernandez-Silva & Randall in Fernandez-Silva et al. 2016, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus flavicaudus ), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829a, as Upeneus flavolineatus ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Upeneus flavolineatus ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus ).

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

Mulloidichthys vanicolensis ( Valenciennes 1831) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Mulloides vanicolensis ), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Mulloides vanicolensis ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Mulloides ruber ).

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

Parupeneus cyclostomus (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936, as Upeneus cyclostoma ; Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937, as Upeneoides luteus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Diamant & Shpigel 1985, as Parupeneus cyclostoma ), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Pseudupeneus cyclostomus ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Upeneus cyclostoma ), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Parupeneus chryserythrus ; Edwards & Rosewell, as Parupeneus chryserydros ), Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Upeneus cyclostoma ).

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

Parupeneus forsskali ( Fourmanoir & Guèzè 1976) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936, as Upeneus barberinus ; Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Paperna 1972b, as Pseudupeneus barberinus ; Randall 2004), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Pseudupeneus barberinus ; Golani & Lerner 2007), Jordan ( Bouchon et al. 1981).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Mullus barberinus ; Randall 2004), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Upeneus barberinus ; Randall 2004), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Upeneus barberinus ; Randall 2004), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Mullus auriflamma ; see Fricke 2008; Fourmanoir & Guézé 1976).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean Sea (see Bariche et al 2013; Sonin et al 2013).

Parupeneus heptacanthus (Lacepède 1802)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Randall 2004).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988), Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Parupeneus pleurospilos ; Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Upeneus pleurospilos ; Bogorodsky et al. 2011a), Eritrea (Randall 2004), Saudi Arabia (Randall 2004).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga.

Parupeneus macronemus (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952, as Parupeneus macronema ), Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Parupeneus macronema ), Jordan ( Marshall 1952, as Parupeneus macronema ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Upeneus macronemus ), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Parupeneus macronema ; Randall 2004), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Upeneus lateristriga ; Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Upeneus macronema ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Parupeneus macronema ).

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

Parupeneus rubescens (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Randall & Guézé 1984).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Upeneus spilurus ; Klunzinger 1884, as Parupeneus notospilus ), Eritrea (Randall 2004).

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

* Upeneus davidaromi Golani 2001 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Upeneus subvittatus ; Golani 2001), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Upeneus subvittatus ; Golani 2001), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Upeneus subvitatus ; Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.

Remark: Previous Red Sea records of Upeneus subvittatus (non Temminck & Schlegel 1843) are based on this species.

Upeneus guttatus (Day 1868)

Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al. 2017).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Uiblein & Heemstra 2010), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

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

Upeneus heemstra Uiblein & Gouws 2014 View in CoL

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