SPHYRNIDAE

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 : 13

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SPHYRNIDAE

Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith 1834)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936, as Sphyrna zygaena ; Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Sphyrna diplana ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Sphyrna diplana ), Eritrea ( Klunzinger 1871, as Zygaena erythraea ; Gilbert 1967), Saudi Arabia (Spaet et al. 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Baranes 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Ben-Tuvia 1968), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia 1968).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Zygaena mokarran ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

References

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

Ben-Tuvia, A. (1968) Report on the fisheries investigations of the Israel South Red Sea Expedition, 1962. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Haifa, 52, 21 - 55.

Gilbert, C. R. (1967) A revision of the hammerhead sharks (family Sphyrnidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 119 (3539), 1 - 88, pls. 1 - 10.

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.

Gruvel, A. (1936) Contribution a l'etude de la bionomie generale et de l'exploration de la faune du canal de Suez. Memoires presentees a l'Institut d'Egypte, N. S., 29, 1 - 255, pls. 1 - 25, 1 color pl.

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.

Tortonese, E. (1983) List of fishes observed near Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Journal of the Faculty of Marine Science, 3, 105 - 110.