CARCHARHINIDAE

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 : 10-12

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CARCHARHINIDAE

Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Rüppell 1837, as Carcharias albimarginatus ), Sudan ( Ninni 1931), Saudi Arabia ( Spaet & Berumen 2015).

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

Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978a), Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993).

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Carcharhinus amboinensis (Müller & Henle 1839)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not eastern Pacific.

Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle 1839)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Aprionodon brevipinna ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Aprionodon brevipinna and Carcharhinus maculipinnis ), Saudi Arabia ( Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in the eastern Pacific.

Remark: Not a Lessepsian migrant as previously reported by Ben-Tuvia (1966) (see Golani et al. 2002).

Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle 1839)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Carcharhinus menisorrah ), Saudi Arabia ( Klausewitz 1959a, as Carcharhinus menisorrah ; Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas.

Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller & Henle 1839)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Baranes 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias ehrenbergi ), Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956), Saudi Arabia (Spaet et al. 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey 1861)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard 1824)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Carcharias melanopterus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias melanopterus ), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Carcharias melanopterus ), Eritrea ( Pellegrin 1912, as Carcharias melanopterus ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Squalus carcharhias minor ; see Fricke 2008; Gladstone 2002).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group.

Remark: Not a Lessepsian migrant as previously reported by Steinitz (1967) (see Golani et al. 2002).

Carcharhinus obscurus (LeSueur 1818)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Baranes 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).

General distribution: Nearly circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo 1827)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978b), Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978b; Baranes & Wendling 1981), Saudi Arabia ( Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, possibly absent from eastern Pacific.

Carcharhinus sorrah (Müller & Henle 1839)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Lamna spallanzanii ; Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Carcharias bleekeri ), Saudi Arabia (Spaet et al. 2015).

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

Carcharhinus wheeleri Garrick 1982

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007, as Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos ), Sudan ( Krupp 1990, as Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos ), Eritrea ( Garrick 1982), Saudi Arabia ( Garrick 1982; Spaet & Berumen 2015, as Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos ).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa to Maldives and Chagos Archipelago.

Remark: This species is probably distrinct from C. amblyrhynchos (see Naylor et al. 2012); previous Red Sea records of Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (non Bleeker 1856) are probably based on this species.

Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur 1822)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Tortonese 1968, as Galeocerdo cuvieri ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Galeocerdo cuvieri ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Galeocerdo obtusus ; Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Saudi Arabia ( Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Loxodon macrorhinus Müller & Henle 1839

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Baranes, 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes, 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Saudi Arabia ( Spaet & Berumen 2015).

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

Negaprion acutidens (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Carcharias munzingeri ; Baranes 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Carcharias acutidens ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias acutidens ), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Carcharias acutidens ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Squalus carcharhias gersch ; see Fricke 2008; Spaet & Berumen 2015); Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Squalus carcharhias gersch ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Klunzinger 1877, as Carcharias acutus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias acutus ), Eritrea ( Springer 1964), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1837, as Carcharias acutus ).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Scoliodon laticaudus Müller &Henle 1838

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Scoliodon palasorrah ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Scoliodon palasorrah ).

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

Triaenodon obesus (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes 1973, 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1837, as Carcharias obesus ).

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

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