PTERELEOTRIDAE, Bleeker, 1874

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 : 164-165

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PTERELEOTRIDAE

Nemateleotris exquisita Randall & Connell 2013

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Randall & Shen 2002, as Nemateleotris decora ; Randall & Connell 2013).

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

Remark: Previous Red Sea records of Nemateleotris decora (non Randall & Allen 1973) are based on this species ( Randall & Connell 2013).

Ptereleotris arabica Randall & Hoese 1985

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Randall & Hoese 1985), Israel ( Randall & Hoese 1985).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Ptereleotris evides ( Jordan & Hubbs 1925)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Klausewitz 1970a, as Ptereleotris tricolor ), Saudi Arabia ( Randall & Hoese 1985). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Wake Atoll and Oeno ( Pitcairn Group).

Ptereleotris heteroptera (Bleeker 1855)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Randall & Hoese 1985).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian , Marquesas and Society islands . Ptereleotris microlepis (Bleeker 1856)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Randall & Hoese 1985), Eritrea (Clark 1968).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Line islands and Tuamotu Archipelago.

Ptereleotris zebra (Fowler 1938)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Randall & Hoese 1985).

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

References

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. (1970 a) Biogeographische und osteologische Untersuchungen an Ptereleotris tricolor (Pisces: Eleotridae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 51 (1 / 2), 67 - 71.

Randall, J. E. & Springer, V. G. (1973) The monotypic Indo-Pacific labrid fish genera Labrichthys and Diproctacanthus with description of a new related genus, Larabicus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 86 (23), 279 - 297.

Randall, J. E. & Hoese, D. F. (1985) Revision of the Indo-Pacific dartfishes, genus Ptereleotris (Perciformes: Gobioidei). Indo- Pacific Fishes, 7, 1 - 36, pls. 1 - 4.

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.

Randall, J. E. & Connell, A. D. (2013) Nemateleotris exquisita, a new microdesmid fish from the Indian Ocean (Perciformes: Microdesmidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 8, 18 - 29.