ENGRAULIDAE, Gill, 1861

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 : 31-32

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Encrasicholina gloria Hata & Motomura 2016

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Whitehad 1965, as Stolephorus buccaneeri ; El-Ganainy et al 2005, as Stolephorus punetifer ; Hata & Motomura 2016).

Gulf of Aqaba:

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Hata & Motomura 2016).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean : Persian Gulf.

Remarks: Red Sea records of Encrasicholina punctifer (non Fowler 1938) are based on this species (see Hata & Motomura 2016). Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Hata & Motomura 2016).

Encrasicholina heteroloba (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936, as Engraulis heterolobus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Engraulis heteroloba ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Engraulis heteroloba ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline Islands, Samoa and Tonga. Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Tillier 1902).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Azov Sea, eastern Atlantic: Norway to South Africa including Madeira and Canary Islands; southwestern Indian Ocean.

Remark: Anti-Lessepsian migrant from eastern Mediterranean into Red Sea (see Whitehead 1965).

Stolephorus indicus (van Hasselt 1823)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Whitehead 1965), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen ( Whitehead 1965).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline, Mariana and Society islands. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean (see Fricke et al. 2015a).

Stolephorus insularis Hardenberg 1933

Gulf of Suez: Probably present, but not recorded.

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Probably present, but not recorded.

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to western Indonesia and South China Sea. Remark: This Indo-West Pacific species was recorded as a Lessepsian migrant from the southeastern Mediterranean by Fricke et al. (2012); it evidently arrived from the Gulf of Suez.

Thryssa baelama (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: New record , based on specimens HUJ 20178, 20180 and 20181 (identified by D. Golani).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Engraulis boelama ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Engraulis boelama ), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1848, as Engraulis boelama ), Saudi Arabia ( Whitehead 1965), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Thryssa setirostris ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline and Mariana islands, Samoa and Tonga.

References

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Bogorodsky, S. V., Alpermann, T. J., Mal, A. O. & Gabr, M. H. (2014 b) Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea. Zootaxa, 3852 (4), 401 - 437. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3852.4.1

Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. (1848) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome vingt et unieme. Suite du livre vingt et unieme et des Clupeoides. Livre vingt-deuxieme. De la famille des Salmonoides. P. Bertrand, Paris, xiv + 1 + 536 pp., pls. 607 - 633. [Valenciennes authored volume.]

El-Ganainy, A. A. H., Yassien, M. H. & Ibrahim, E. A. (2005) Bottom trawl discards in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research, 21 (Special Issue), 240 - 255.

Fricke, R., Golani, D. & Appelbaum-Golani, B. (2015 a) First record of the Indian anchovy Stolephorus indicus (van Hasselt, 1823) (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. BioInvasions Records, 4 (4), 293 - 297. https: // doi. org / 10.3391 / bir. 2015.4.4.11

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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.

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