SIGANIDAE, Richardson, 1837

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 : 168-169

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SIGANIDAE View in CoL View at ENA

Siganus argenteus (Quoy & Gaimard 1825)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Siganus rostratus ; Woodland 1990), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Amphacanthus rostratus ); Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Amphacanthus rostratus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Wake Atoll and Pitcairn.

Siganus luridus ( Rüppell 1829) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Rüppell 1829, as Amphacanthus luridus View in CoL ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Woodland 1990), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia 1964; Paperna 1972a), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Rüppell 1871, as Amphacanthus luridus ), Sudan ( Fowler 1931), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Amphacanthus luridus ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf to Comores, Madagascar and western Mascarenes.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966; Woodland 1990).

Siganus rivulatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Rüppell 1829, as Amphacanthus siganus; Tortonese 1948).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952, as Teuthis rivulatus ), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), (Kimmerling et al. 2017, as Siganus sutor ), Jordan ( Bouchon et al. 1981).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Amphacanthus sigan.), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Amphacanthus siganus), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scarus rivulatus and Scarus sidjan ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa to Persian Gulf.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966; Woodland 1990).

Siganus stellatus (Forsskål 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Eritrea ( Botros 1971, as Teuthis stellata ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Paperna 1972a), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Amphacanthus stellatus ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Amphacanthus stellatus ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scarus stellatus ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Indonesia.

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Ben-Tuvia, A. & Steinitz, H. (1952) Report on a collection of fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Aqaba), Red Sea. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 2, 1 - 12.

Ben-Tuvia, A. (1964) Two siganid fishes of Red Sea origin in the eastern Mediterranean. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 37, 3 - 9.

Ben-Tuvia, A. (1966) Red Sea fishes recently found in the Mediterranean. Copeia, 1966 (2), 254 - 275. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1441133

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Picaglia, L. (1895) Pesci del Mar Rosso pescati nella campagna idrografica della Regia Nave Scilla nel 1891 - 92; coll' aggiunta delle specie del Mar Rosso e del Golfo di Aden ... Atti della Societa dei Naturalisti di Modena, Series 3, 13, 22 - 40.

Ruppell, W. P. E. S. (1828 - 1830) Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika. Fische des Rothen Meers. Heinrich Ludwig Bronner, Frankfurt am Main, 141 + 3 pp., 35 pls. [Part 1 (1828): pp. 1 - 26, pls. 1 - 6; Part 2 (1829), pp. 27 - 94, pls. 7 - 24; Part 3 (1830): pp. 95 - 141, pls. 25 - 35]

Tortonese, E. (1948) Ricerche zoologiche bel Canale di Suez e dintorni. II. Pesci. Archivio Zoologico Italiano, 33, 275 - 291.

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

Woodland, D. J. (1990) Revision of the fish family Siganidae with descriptions of two new species and comments on distribution and biology. Indo-Pacific Fishes, 19, 1 - 136, pls. 1 - 11.