RACHYCENTRIDAE, Gill, 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 : 81

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Rachycentron canadum (Linnaeus 1766)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937, as Elacate nigra ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1955, as Rachycentron canadus ), Jordan ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Rachycentron canadus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Elacate nigra ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1836, as Elacate pondiceriana ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1986).

References

Golani, D. & Ben-Tuvia, A. (1986) New records of fishes from the Mediterranean coast of Israel including Red Sea immigrants. Cybium, 10 (3), 285 - 291.

Gruvel, A. & Chabanaud, P. (1937) Missions A. Gruvel dans le canal de Suez. II. Poissons. Memoires de l'Institut d'Egypte, New Series, 35, 1 - 30.

Klunzinger, C. B. (1871) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. II. Theil. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 21, 441 - 688.

Steinitz, H. & Ben-Tuvia, A. (1955) Fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Aqaba), Red Sea. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 11, 1 - 15.

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