MURAENESOCIDAE, Kaup, 1859

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 : 24

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Congresox talabonoides (Bleeker 1853)

Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al. 2017).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Muraenesox talabon ; Castle & Williamson 1975).

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

Muraenesox cinereus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1982), Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997). Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Klausewitz & Thiel 1982), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Muraena cinerea ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1982).

References

Baranes, A. & Golani, D. (1993) An annotated list of deep-sea fishes collected in the northern Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba. Israel Journal of Zoology, 39, 299 - 336.

Castle, P. H. J. & Williamson, G. R. (1975) Systematics and distribution of eels of the Muraenesox group (Anguilliformes, Muraenesocidae). J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Special Publication, 15, 1 - 9.

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.

Golani, D. & Ben-Tuvia, A. (1982) First records of the Indo-Pacific daggertooth pike-conger, Muraenesox cinereus, in the eastern Mediterranean and in the Gulf of Elat (Gulf of ' Aqaba). Israel Journal of Zoology, 31, 54 - 57.

Haroun, E. S., Akel, K. & Karachle, P. K. (2017) The marine ichthyofauna of Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 21 (3), 81 - 116. https: // doi. org / 10.21608 / ejabf. 2017.4130

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

Klausewitz, W. & Thiel, H. (1982) Tiefenwasser- und Tiefseefische aus dem Roten Meer. VI. Uber das Vorkommen das Haifisches Iago omanensis (Norman) (Pisces: Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii: Carcharhinidae) und des Messerzahnaals Muraenesox cinereus (Forsskal) (Teleostei: Apodes: Muraenesocidae), beide mit Hilfe der Fotofalle beaobachtet und gefangen. Senckenbergiana Maritima, 14 (5 / 6), 227 - 243.

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.