SPARIDAE

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 : 100-102

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SPARIDAE View in CoL View at ENA

Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Dentex robinsoni ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Chrysophrys berda ), Sudan ( Iwatsuki & Carpenter 2009), Eritrea ( Pellegrin 1912, as Chrysophuys datnia; Tortonese 1935, as Sparus berda ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Chrysophrys berda ), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus berda ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Acanthopagrus bifasciatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936, as Chrysophrys bifasciatus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952, as Sparus bifasciatus ), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Sparus bifasciatus ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Chrysophrys bifasciata ), Sudan ( Martens 1867, as Chrysophrys bifasciata ), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830b, as Chrysophrys bifasciata ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon bifasciatus ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Mozambique Channel and Persian Gulf east to Pakistan.

Remark: A single specimen was recorded from the Mediterranean ( Ben Souissi et al. 2014).

Argyrops filamentosus (Valenciennes 1830)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Bayoumi 1972).

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf to Madagascar and western Mascarenes.

Argyrops megalommatus ( Klunzinger 1870) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Pagrus megalommatus ).

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

Argyrops spinifer (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Pagrus spinifer ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952), Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Pagrus spinifer ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Pagrus spinifer ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus spinifer ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Argyrops spinifers ).

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

Cheimerius nufar (Valenciennes 1830)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Dentex nufar ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

* Crenidens crenidens (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus crenidens View in CoL ; see Fricke 2008).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Crenidens forskalii ; Budker & Fourmanoir 1954), Eritrea ( Giglioli 1889, as Crenidens Foskalii ; Tortonese 1935; Iwatsuki & Maclaine 2013), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus crenidens ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen ( Bogorodsky et al. 2017a).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Norman 1927).

Diplodus noct (Valenciennes 1830)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830b, as Sargus noct ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Sargus noct ).

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

Polysteganus coeruleopunctatus ( Klunzinger 1870) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Dentex coeruleopunctatus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa south to KwaZulu-Natal ( South Africa), east to Madagascar.

Rhabdosargus haffara (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Tillier 1902, as Chrysophrys haffara View in CoL ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Sparus haffara ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Chrysophrys haffara ).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf to Madagascar.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).

Rhabdosargus sarba (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus sarba View in CoL ; see Fricke 2008).

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Chrysophrys sarba ), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Chrysophrys sarba ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus sarba ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Sparus aurata Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Tortonese 1948).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Golani & Lerner 2007), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: British Isles to Senegal, Cape Verde

Islands; introduced elsewhere.

Remark: Originally in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; introduced in the Red Sea.

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