ALOPIIDAE

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 : 8

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ALOPIIDAE

Alopias pelagicus Nakamura 1935

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Baranes 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf 2004; Baranes 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Alopias vulpinus ), Saudi Arabia ( Spaet & Berumen 2015). General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas.

References

Baranes, A. (2013) The Red Sea Sharks: Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology. Pensoft, Sofia and Moscow, 241 pp.

Gohar, H. A. F. & Mazhar, F. M. M. (1964) The elasmobranchs of the north-western Red Sea. Publications of the Marine Biological Station Al-Ghardaqa, 13, 3 - 144, pls. 1 - 16, 2 maps.

Khalaf, M. A (2004) Fish fauna of the Jordanian coast, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. JKAU Marine Science, 15, 23 - 50. https: // doi. org / 10.4197 / mar. 15 - 1.2

Spaet, J. L. Y. & Berumen, M. L. (2015) Fish market surveys indicate unsustainable elasmobranch fisheries in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea. Fisheries Research, 161, 356 - 364. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. fishres. 2014.08.022