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

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Ablennes hians ( Valenciennes 1846) View in CoL

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).

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.

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.

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

Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. (1846) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dix-huitieme. Suite du livre dix-huitieme. Cyprinoides. Livre dix-neuvieme. Des Esoces ou Lucioides. Pitois-Levrault, Paris, xix + 2 + 505 + 2 pp., pls. 520 - 553. [Valenciennes authored volume.]

El-Ganainy, A. A. H., Yassien, M. H. & Ibrahim, E. A. (2005) Bottom trawl discards in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research, 21 (Special Issue), 240 - 255.

Gladstone, W. (2002) Fisheries of the Farasan Islands (Red Sea). Naga, 25 (3 - 4), 30 - 34.

Golani, D. (1998) Distribution of Lessepsian migrant fish in the Mediterranean. Italian Journal of Zoology, 65 (supplement), 95 - 99. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 11250009809386801

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

Kossmann, R. & Rauber, H. (1877) Fische. Wissenschftliche Reise in die Kustengebiete des Rothen Meeres. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorisch-Medizinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg, 1, 378 - 420, pls. 3 - 4.

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.

Tillier, J. - B. (1902) Le canal de Suez et sa faune ichthyologique. Memoires de la Societe oologique de France, 14, 279 - 318, pl. 1. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / MF 01124