BELONIDAE

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 : 42-43

BELONIDAE

Ablennes hians ( Valenciennes 1846)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Belone melanostigma ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Belone schismatorhynchus ), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846, as Belone melanostigma ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Platybelone platura (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Belone platura ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Belone platura ). General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.

Tylosurus choram (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Tillier 1902, as Belone choram ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Belone choram ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Belone choram ), Yemen ( Botros 1971, as Belone choram ), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Belone choram ), Saudi Arabia ( Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998). General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).

Tylosurus crocodilus (Péron & Lesueur 1821)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Strongylura crocodila ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Belone koseirensis ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846, as Belone crocodilus ).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific.

Tylosurus melanotus (Bleeker 1850)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Belone appendiculatus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Revillagigedo, Clipperton and Cocos islands (eastern Pacific).