MICRODESMIDAE, Regan, 1912

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 : 164

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Gunnellichthys monostigma Smith 1958

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Randall & Shen 2002).

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Randall & Shen 2002).

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

*Paragunnellichthys springeri Dawson 1970

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Dawson 1970).

General distribution: Northern Red Sea endemic.

References

Dawson, C. E. (1970) A new wormfish (Gobioidea: Microdesmidae) from the northern Red Sea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 83 (25), 267 - 272.

Randall, J. E. & Shen, D. C. (2002) First records of the gobioid fishes Gunnellichthys monostigma and Nemateleotris decora from the Red Sea. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 19, 491 - 495.

Smith, J. L. B. (1958) The fishes of the family Eleotridae in the western Indian Ocean. Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, 11, 137 - 163, pls. 1 - 3.