KYPHOSIDAE

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 : 106-107

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Kyphosus bigibbus Lacepède 1801

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1836, as Pimelepterus fuscus ; El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Pimelepterus fuscus ), Sudan ( Fowler 1931), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Atlantic Ocean; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Indonesia and northern New Zealand.

Kyphosus cinerascens (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Pimelepterus tahmel ), Sudan ( Fowler 1931), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Pimelepterus tahmel ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Pimelepterus tahmel ).

General distribution: South Atlantic; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Line islands and Easter Island .

Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Giamard 1825)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Pimelepterus waigiensis ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Pimelepterus marciac ).

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

References

Botros, G. A. (1971) Fishes of the Red Sea. Oceanography and Marine Biology, Annual Review, 9, 221 - 348.

El-Ganainy, A. A. H., Yassien, M. H. & Ibrahim, E. A. (2005) Bottom trawl discards in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research, 21 (Special Issue), 240 - 255.

Fowler, H. W. (1931) The fishes obtained by the De Schauensee South African Expedition, 1930. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 83, 233 - 249.

Khalaf, M. A &. Disi, A. M. (1997) Fishes of the Gulf of Aqaba. Publications of the Marine Science Station, Aqaba, 8, 1 - 252.

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.

Martens, E. von (1867) Verzeichniss der von Dr. E. Schweinfurth im Sommer 1864 auf seiner Reise am Rothen Meere gesammelten und nach Berlin eingesendeten zoologischen Gegenstande. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft zu Wien, 1866, 377 - 382.

Niebuhr, C. (1775) Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit ... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. ex officina Molleri, Hauniae, 20 + xxxiv + 164 pp., map.

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.

Tortonese, E. (1983) List of fishes observed near Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Journal of the Faculty of Marine Science, 3, 105 - 110.