CIRRHITIDAE

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 : 118

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Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (Bleeker 1855)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Cirrhitichthys aprinus ), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Cirrhites aprinus ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1976, as Cirrhitichthys aureus ).

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

Cirrhitus spilotoceps Schultz 1950 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Cirrhitichthys maculatus ), Sudan ( Gaither & Randall 2013), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829a, as Cirrhites maculatus ; Gaither & Randall 2013), Saudi Arabia ( Gaither & Randall 2013).

Remark: Red Sea records of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (non Forster 1801) are based on C. spilotoceps (see Gaither & Randall 2013).

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

Oxycirrhites typus Bleeker 1857

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Debelius 2007), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: Madagascar and Seychelles east to Panama.

Paracirrhites forsteri (Schneider 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Cirrhites forsteri ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

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

References

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.

Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. (1829 a) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome troisieme. Suite du Livre troisieme. Des percoides a dorsale unique a sept rayons branchiaux et a dents en velours ou en cardes. F. G. Levrault, Paris, xxviii + 2 + 500 pp., pls. 41 - 71. [Cuvier authored volume]

Debelius, H. (2007) Red Sea reef guide. Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Arabian Peninsula. Richmond, Surrey, Circle, 1 - 321.

Gaither, M. R. & Randall, J. E. (2013) Reclassification of the Indo-Pacific hawkfish Cirrhitus pinnulatus (Forster). Zootaxa, 3599 (2), 189 - 196. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3599.2.5

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

Khalaf, M. A (2004) Fish fauna of the Jordanian coast, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. JKAU Marine Science, 15, 23 - 50. https: // doi. org / 10.4197 / mar. 15 - 1.2

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.

Klunzinger, C. B. (1884) Die Fische des Rothen Meeres. Eine kritische Revision mit Bestimmungstabellen. I. Teil. Acanthopteri veri Owen. E. tSchweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung (E. Koch), Stuttgart, ix + 133 + [13] pp., 13 pls.

Kotthaus, A. (1976) Fische des Indischen Ozeans. Ergebnisse der ichthyologischen Untersuchungen wahrend der Expedition des Forschungsschiffes ' Meteor' in den Indischen Ozean, Oktober 1964 bis Mai 1965. A. Systematischer Teil, XVII. Percomorphi (7). Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie, 23, 45 - 61.

Schultz, L. P. (1950) Three new species of fishes of the genus Cirrhitus (family Cirrhitidae) from the Indo-Pacific. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 100 (3270), 547 - 552, pl. 13.

Shpigel, M. (1997) Fishes of the Red Sea. Red Sea Magazine, Ra'anana, Israel: 159 pp.

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