MORONIDAE, Jordan & Evermann, 1896

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 : 67

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Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Steindachner 1895, as Labrax lupus ; Gruvel 1936, as Morone labrax ).

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

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: Norway and Iceland to Senegal.

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

Dicentrarchus punctatus (Bloch 1792)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Steindachner 1895, as Labrax orientalis ; Ben-Tuvia 1971).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Ben-Tuvia, 1971).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic: English Channel to Senegal.

Remark: Anti-Lessepsian migrant from eastern Mediterranean into Red Sea (see Ben-Tuvia 1971).

References

Ben-Tuvia, A. (1971) On the occurrence of the Mediterranean serranid fish Dicentrarchus punctatus (Bloch) in the Gulf of Suez. Copeia, 1971 (4), 741 - 743. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1442650

Golani, D. & Lerner, A. (2007) A long-term study of the sandy shore ichthyofauna in the northern Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba) with reference to adjacent mariculture activity. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 14 (Supplement), 255 - 264.

Gruvel, A. (1936) Contribution a l'etude de la bionomie generale et de l'exploration de la faune du canal de Suez. Memoires presentees a l'Institut d'Egypte, N. S., 29, 1 - 255, pls. 1 - 25, 1 color pl.

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

Steindachner, F. (1895) Briefliche Mittheilungen von dem wissenschaftlichen Leiter der Expedition S. M. Schiffes Pola im Rothen Meere aus Djeddah. Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch- Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 32 (24 - 25), 258 - 259.