EXOCOETIDAE, Risso, 1827

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 : 41

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Cheilopogon cyanopterus (Valenciennes 1847)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Exocoetus bahiensis ); Eritrea ( Tortonese 1957, as Cypselurus altipennis ).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Cypselurus hexazona (Bleeker 1853)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Parin & Bogorodsky 2011).

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

Parexocoetus brachypterus (Richardson 1846)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).

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

Parexocoetus mento (Valenciennes 1847)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Exocoetus gryllus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Exocoetus gryllus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Exocoetus gryllus ), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Exocoetus gryllus ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Fiji.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966).

References

Ben-Tuvia, A. (1966) Red Sea fishes recently found in the Mediterranean. Copeia, 1966 (2), 254 - 275. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1441133

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

Khalaf, M. A &. Disi, A. M. (1997) Fishes of the Gulf of Aqaba. Publications of the Marine Science Station, Aqaba, 8, 1 - 252.

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

Parin, N. V. & Bogorodsky, S. V. (2011) Distribution and morphology of flying fish Cypselurus hexazona placed into a separate subgenus Zonocypselurus subgen. nov. Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 51 (5), 683 - 686. [English translation in: Journal of Ichthyology, 51 (8), 658 - 661] https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0032945211050110

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.

Tortonese, E. (1957) Spedizione subacquea italiana nel Mar Rosso. Ricerche zoologiche. VIII. Pesci Isospondili, Apodi, Sinentognathi, Eterosomi e Discocefali. Rivista di Biologia Coloniale, 15, 49 - 55.