GERREIDAE, Bleeker, 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 : 95-96

GERREIDAE

Gerres infasciatus Iwatsuki & Kimura 1998

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Gerres filamentosus ), Sudan ( Borodin 1930, as Gerres filamentosus ), Eritrea ( Iwatsuki et al. 2015), Saudi Arabia ( Iwatsuki et al. 2015).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Gulf of Thailand.

Remark: Red Sea records of Gerres filamentosus (non Cuvier 1829) are based on this species (see Iwatsuki et al. 2015).

Gerres longirostris (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Chabanaud 1932, as Gerres acinaces ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (new record, based on HUJ 20071, identified by Y. Iwatsuki).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Gerres rüppellii ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau and Marquesas Islands.

Gerres macracanthus Bleeker 1854

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Iwatsuki et al. 2015), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.

Gerres oblongus Cuvier 1830

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Tilier 1902).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Gerres oyena (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Labrus öyena ; see Fricke 2008).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Gerres oeyena ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870), Sudan ( Fowler 1931), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Labrus öyena ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Labrus öyena ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Samoa.