CAESIONIDAE, Bonaparte, 1831

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 : 93-94

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Caesio caerulaurea Lacepède 1801

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Caesio caerulaureus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Carpenter 1987), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Caesio caerulaureus ); Jordan (Bouchon et al., as Caesio coerulaureus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Caesio coerulaureus ), Sudan ( Debelius 2007), Eritrea ( Borsieri 1904, as Caesio coerulaureus ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1830, as Caesio azuraureus ).

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

Caesio lunaris Cuvier 1830

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838; Carpenter 1987), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Fiji.

Caesio striata Rüppell 1830

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Carpenter 1987), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1830, as Caesio striatus ), Sudan ( Carpenter 1987), Ethiopia ( Carpenter 1987), Saudi Arabia ( Carpenter 1987).

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

* Caesio suevica Klunzinger 1884

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Carpenter 1987), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Caesio suevicus ), Sudan ( Carpenter 1987).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Caesio varilineata Carpenter 1987

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), Sudan ( Krupp 1990).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Sumatra and Java.

Caesio xanthonota Bleeker 1853

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

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

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

Dipterygonotus balteatus (Valenciennes, 1830)

General distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Solomon Islands.

Remark: This species has not been recorded from the Red Sea but was recorded from the Mediterranean ( Bariche & Fricke, 2018). Since its wide Indo-Pacific distribution including the Gulf of Aden, it is evidently occurring in the Red Sea.

Gymnocaesio gymnoptera (Bleeker 1856)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), Sudan ( Carpenter 1987), Saudi Arabia ( Carpenter 1987).

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

Pterocaesio chrysozona (Cuvier 1830)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Carpenter 1987), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1975).

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

References

Bamber, R. C. (1915) Reports on the marine biology of the Sudanese Red Sea, from collections made by Cyril Crossland, M. A., D. Sc., F. L. S. XXII. The Fishes. The Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 31 (210), 477 - 485, pl. 46.

Bariche, M. & Fricke, R. (2018) Dipterygonotus balteatus (Valenciennes, 1830) (Teleostei: Caesionidae), a new alien fish in the Mediterranean. BioInvasions Records, 7 (1), 79 - 82. https: // doi. org / 10.3391 / bir. 2018.7.1.12

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.

Borsieri, C. (1904) Contribuzione alla conoscenza della fauna ittiologica della Colonia Eritrea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Series 3, 1 (41), 187 - 220.

Botros, G. A. (1971) Fishes of the Red Sea. Oceanography and Marine Biology, Annual Review, 9, 221 - 348.

Carpenter, K. E. (1987) Revision of the Indo-Pacific fish family Caesionidae (Lutjanoidea), with descriptions of five new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes, 15, 1 - 56, pls. 1 - 7.

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

Haroun, E. S., Akel, K. & Karachle, P. K. (2017) The marine ichthyofauna of Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 21 (3), 81 - 116. https: // doi. org / 10.21608 / ejabf. 2017.4130

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. (1975) Fische des Indischen Ozeans. Ergebnisse der ichthyologischen Untersuchungen wahrend der Expedition des Forschungsschiffes ' Meteor' in den Indischen Ozean, Oktober 1964 bis 1965. A. Systematischer Teil, XVI. Percomorphi (6). Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie, 21, 30 - 53.

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

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

Roux-Esteve, R. & Fourmanoir, P. (1955) Poissons captures par la mission de la Calypso en Mer Rouge. Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique Monaco, New Series, 30 (7), 195 - 203.

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