RHINOBATIDAE

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 : 14-15

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RHINOBATIDAE

Glaucostegus halavi (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Rhinobatus halavi ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Rhinobatus granulatus ), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Rhinobatus halavi ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja halavi ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman to Pakistan.

Remark: A single specimen was recorded in Tunisia as a Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean ( Ben Souissi et al 2007).

Glaucostegus thouin (Anonymous 1798)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Duméril 1865, as Rhinobatus thouini ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Pellegrin 1912, as Rhinobatus thouini ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: India east to Indonesia.

Rhina ancylostoma Bloch & Schneider 1801

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia ( Debelius 2007), ( Spaet & Berumen 2015).

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

Rhinobatos punctifer Compagno & Randall 1987

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Randall & Compagno 1995), Israel ( Compagno & Randall 1987), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja djiddensis ; see Fricke 2008).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Rhynchobatus djeddensis ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja djiddensis ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja djiddensis ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East and South Africa to Madagascar, Réunion and Persian Gulf.

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 Souissi, J., Golani, D., Mejri, H., Ben Salem, M. & Capape, C. (2007) First confirmed record of the Halave's Guitarfish, Rhinobatos halavi (Forsskal, 1775) (Chondrichthyes: Rhinobatidae) in the Mediterranean Sea with a description of a case of albinism in elasmobranchs. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 48, 67 - 75.

Compagno, L. J. V. & Randall, J. E. (1987) Rhinobatos punctifer, a new species of guitarfish (Rhinobatiformes: Rhinobatidae) from the Red Sea, with notes on the Red Sea batoid fauna. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 44 (14), 335 - 342.

Debelius, H. (2007) Red Sea reef guide. Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Arabian Peninsula. Richmond, Surrey, Circle, 1 - 321.

Dumeril, A. H. A. (1865) Histoire naturelle des poissons ou ichthyologie generale. Tome Premier. I. Elasmobranches. Plagiostomes et Holocephales ou Chimeres. Roret, Paris, 720 pp. (text), 8 pp. (atlas), 14 pls. [Pt. 1 = pp. 1 - 352, Pt. 2 = pp. 353 - 720.]

Fricke, R. (2008) Authorship, availability and validity of fish names described by Peter (Pehr) Simon Forsskal and Johann Christian Fabricius in the ' Descriptiones animalium' by Carsten Niebuhr in 1775 (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, New Series, 1, 1 - 76.

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 &. 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.

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.

Niebuhr, C. (1775) Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit ... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. ex officina Molleri, Hauniae, 20 + xxxiv + 164 pp., map.

Pellegrin, J. (1912) Poissons du Musee de Naples provenant des expeditions du Vettor Pisani et du Dogali et de la mer Rouge. Annuario del Museo Zoologico della Universita di Napoli, New Series, 3 (27), 1 - 11.

Randall, J. E. & Compagno, L. J. V. (1995) A review of the guitarfishes of the genus Rhinobatos (Rajiformes: Rhinobatidae) from Oman, with description of a new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 43 (2), 289 - 298.

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