PHOSICHTHYIDAE, Weitzman, 1974

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 : 33

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9D80FE28-D378-4C7D-87D7-380F6B583BC1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5962290

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scientific name

PHOSICHTHYIDAE
status

 

PHOSICHTHYIDAE View in CoL View at ENA

* Vinciguerria mabahiss Johnson & Feltes 1984 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Aron & Goodyear 1969, as Vinciguerria lucetia ; Johnson & Feltes 1984), Jordan ( Froukh 2001).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Aron & Goodyear 1969, as Vinciguerria lucetia ; Johnson & Feltes 1984), Sudan ( Johnson & Feltes 1984), Saudi Arabia ( Kotthaus 1980, as Vinciguerria lucetia ).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Aron, W. & Goodyear, R. H. (1969) Fishes collected during a midwater trawling survey of the Gulf of Elat and the Red Sea. Israel Journal of Zoology, 18, 237 - 244.

Froukh, T. J. (2001) Studies on taxonomy and ecology of some fish larvae from the Gulf of Aqaba. PhD Dissertation, University of Jordan, Amman, 121 pp.

Johnson, R. K. & Feltes, R. M. (1984) A new species of Vinciguerria (Salmoniformes: Photichthyidae) from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba, with comments on the depauperacy of the Red Sea mesopelagic fish fauna. Fieldiana Zoology, New Series, 22, i-vi + 1 - 35.

Kotthaus, A. (1980) 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, XXIV. Teleostei: Zusammenfassung und Gesamtverzeichnis. Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie, 32, 45 - 60.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Stomiiformes

Family

Phosichthyidae