RHINCODONTIDAE

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 : 10

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RHINCODONTIDAE

Rhincodon typus Smith 1828

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Tortonese 1956).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes 1973, 2013), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), Sudan ( Gudger 1938, as Rhineodon sp.), Eritrea ( Gudger 1938, as Rhineodon sp.), Yemen ( Gudger 1938, as Rhineodon sp.).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas except the Mediterranean.

Baranes, A. (1973) Taxonomy and behavior of the genera Mustelus and Triaenodon (Triakidae, Pisces) of the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Part 1 - 3. M. Sci. Thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalam, 98 pp. [Part 1: pp. i-ii + 1 - 67; Part 2: pp. 69 - 83 & Part 3: 94 - 108]

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

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

Gudger, E. W. (1938) Four whale sharks rammed by steamers in the Red Sea region. Copeia, 1938 (4), 170 - 173. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1436507

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

Tortonese, E. (1956) Spedizione subacquea italiana nel Mar Rosso. Ricerche zoologiche. IV. Plagiostomi. VI. Plettognati. Rivista di Biologia Coloniale, 14, 5 - 21 + 73 - 86.