PEGASIDAE

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 : 60

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PEGASIDAE

Eurypegasus draconis (Linnaeus 1766)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Palsson & Pietsch 1989), Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Pegasus draconis ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Palsson & Pietsch 1989).

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

References

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

Palsson, W. A. & Pietsch, T. W. (1989) Revision of the acanthopterygian fish family Pegasidae (Order Gasterosteiformes). Indo- Pacific Fishes, 18, 1 - 38, pl. 1.

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