DASYATIDAE

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 : 15-16

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DASYATIDAE

Brevitrygon walga (Müller & Henle 1841)

Red Sea: (Müller & Henle 1841, as Trygon walga ; Last et al. 2016) .

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Klunzinger 1871, as Raja obtusa and Trygon polylepis ; Dor 1984, as Dasyatis imbricata ; Last et al. 2016).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to western India.

Himantura uarnak (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936, as Trygon uarnak )

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Trygon uarnak ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Marshall 1952, as Dasyatis uarnak ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Trygon uarnak ), Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956), Saudi Arabia ( Spaet & Berumen 2015), Yemen ( Botros 1971, as Trygon uarnak ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.

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

Maculabatis ambigua Last, Bogorodsky & Alpermann 2016

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani et al. 2008 as Himantura gerrardi ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Dasyatis gerrardi ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Himantura gerrardi ; Last et al. 2016).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa .

Neotrygon caeruleopunctatus Last, White & Séret 2016

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Melouk 1959, as Tryghon kuhlii ), Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956, as Dasyatis kuhlii ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Indonesia.

Pastinachus sephen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Lieske & Myers 2010).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Dasyatis sephen ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Trygon sephen ), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Dasyatis sephen ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja sephen ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen ( Botros 1971, as Trygon sephen ).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to Pakistan.

Pateobatis fai ( Jordan & Seale 1906)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Trygon liocephalus ).

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

Taeniura lymma (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

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

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia &Steinitz 1952), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja lymma ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

Taeniurops meyeni (Müller & Henle 1841)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Taeniura melanospila ), Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956, as Taeniura melanospilos ).

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

Urogymnus asperrimus (Bloch & Schneider 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Urogymnus rhombeus ), Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956, as Urogymnus africanus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Mariana Islands and Fiji; possibly eastern Atlantic.

Urogymnus granulatus (Macleay 1883)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014a, as Himantura granulata ).

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

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