PRIACANTHIDAE, Günther, 1859

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 : 70-71

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Priacanthus blochii Bleeker 1853

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Randall 1994c).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden and Seychelles east to Philippines and Samoa.

Priacanthus hamrur (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan ( Bouchon et al. 1981), Debelius 2007, as Heteropriacanthus cruentatus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870), Sudan ( Krupp 1990), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena hamrur ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena hamrur ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Remark: Two specimens were recorded in the Mediterranean (Erguden et al. in press).

Rriacanthus prolixus Starnes, 1988

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Northwestern Indian Ocean: Somalia east to Pakistan.

Remark: This species has not been recorded from the Red Sea but was recorded from the Mediterranean ( Gürlek et al. 2017). Since its northwestern Indian Ocean distribution it is evidently occurring in the Red Sea.

Priacanthus sagittarius Starnes 1988

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004).

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

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Réunion east to southern Japan, Philippines and Samoa. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean (see Golani et al. 2011c).

Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia in Dor 1984, as Pristigenys niphonia ), Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993, as Pristigenys niphonia ; Iwatsuki et al. 2012), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004, as Pristigenys niphonia ).

Red Sea main basin: southern Red Sea ( Iwatsuki et al. 2012)

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

References

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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.

Bogorodsky, S. V., Alpermann, T. J., Mal, A. O. & Gabr, M. H. (2014 b) Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea. Zootaxa, 3852 (4), 401 - 437. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3852.4.1

Bouchon, C., Jaubert, J. & Bouchon-Navaro, Y. (1981) Evolution of a semi-artificial reef built by transplanting coral heads. Tethys, 10 (2), 173 - 176.

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

Dor, M. (1984) Checklist of the fishes of the Red Sea. CLOFRES. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, xxii + 437 pp., map.

Fricke, R. (2008) Authorship, availability and validity of fish names described by Peter (Pehr) Simon Forsskal and Johann Christian Fabricius in the ' Descriptiones animalium' by Carsten Niebuhr in 1775 (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, New Series, 1, 1 - 76.

Golani, D., Sonin, O. & Edelist, D. (2011 c) Second records of the Lessepsian fish migrants Priacanthus sagittarius and Platax teira in the Mediterranean and distribution extension of Tylerius spinosissimus. Aquatic Invasions, 6 (Supplement 1), 7 - 11. [S 7 - S 11] https: // doi. org / 10.3391 / ai. 2011.6. S 1.002

Gurlek, M., Erguden, D & Turan, C. (2017) First record of Elongate Bulleye Priacanthus proxlixus in the Mediterranean Sea. Natural and Engineering Sciences, 2 (1), 44 - 47. https: // doi. org / 10.28978 / nesciences. 292356

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Iwatsuki, Y., Matsuda, T., Starnes, W. C., Nakabo, T. & Yoshino, T. (2012) A valid priacanthid species, Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862), and a redescription of P. niphonia (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829) in the Indo-West Pacific (Perciformes: Priacanthidae). Zootaxa, 3206, 41 - 57.

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.

Krupp, F. (1990) Sanganeb - ein Unterwasser-Nationalpark im Roten Meer. Natur und Museum, 120 (12), 405 - 409.

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.

Randall, J. E. (1994 c) Twenty-two new records of fishes from the Red Sea. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 14, 259 - 275.