BOTHIDAE

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 : 172-174

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Arnoglossus arabicus Norman 1939

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Fricke et al. 2017d).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden to southern Oman.

Arnoglossus macrolophus Alcock 1889

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Fricke et al. 2017d), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004, as Arnoglossus tapeinosoma ).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Dor 1970, as Arnoglossus tapeinosoma ; Fricke et al. 2017d), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1977c, as Arnoglossus tapeinosoma ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar and Persian Gulf east to Japan, Philippines and New Guinea.

* Arnoglossus marisrubri Klausewitz & Schneider 1986 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Klausewitz & Schneider 1986).

General distribution: Red sea endemic.

Asterorhombus intermedius (Bleeker 1865)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Chabanaud 1948).

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Debelius 2007, as Asterhombus intermedius ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Goren & Spanier 1985, as Arnoglossus intermedius ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Seychelles and Madagascar east to southern Japan and Tonga.

Bothus pantherinus (Rüppell 1830)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Bayoumi 1972).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Rhomboidichthys pantherinus ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Platophrys pantherinus ), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Rhomboidichthys pantherinus ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1830, as Rhombus pantherinus ).

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

Bothus tricirrhitus Kotthaus 1977

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Kotthaus 1977c).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean : Gulf of Aden.

Engyprosopon grandisquama (Temminck & Schlegel 1846)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( El-Ganainy et al 2005, as Engyprodopon grandisquamis).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Scaeops poecilura ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Japan, Philippines and New Caledonia.

Engyprosopon hureaui Quèro & Golani 1990 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Quèro & Golani 1990).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Chabanaud 1943, as Engyprosopon maldivensis ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Maldives; Ryukyu Islands; Chesterfield Islands and Bellona Reefs ( New Caledonia).

Engyprosopon latifrons (Regan 1908)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Engyprosopon macrolepis (Regan 1908)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Hensley &Randall 1990).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar and Saint Brandon's Shoals east to Philippines, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia.

* Laeops sinusarabici Chabanaud 1968 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Chabanaud 1968).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Dor 1970, as Laeops kitharae ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

*Parabothus budkeri ( Chabanaud 1943)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Chabanaud 1943, as Bothus budkeri ).

General distribution: Northern Red Sea endemic.

References

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Bayoumi, A. R. (1972) Recent biological investigations in the Red Sea along the A. R. E. coasts. 1. On some demersal fishes from the Red Sea with notes on migration of fish through the Suez Canal. Bulletin of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Cairo, 2, 157 - 183.

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.

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

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Chabanaud, P. (1968) Description d'un nouveau Laeops (Pleuronectiformes Bothidae) de la mer Rouge (Mission R. Ph. Dollfus). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Series 2, 39 (5), 838 - 845, pls. 1 - 2. [pp. 843 - 845 are an appendix prepared by Dollfus.]

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Fricke, R., Golani, D. & Appelbaum-Golani, B. (2017 d) Arnoglossus nigrofilamentosus n. sp., a new species of flounder (Teleostei: Bothidae) from off the Mediterranean coast of Israel, probably a new case of Lessepsian migration. Scientia Marina, 2017, 1 - 9. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / scimar. 04684.07 A

Goren, M. & Spanier, E. (1985) The communities of benthic fish in Foul Bay (Tiran Island, Red Sea). Oceanologica Acta, 8 (4), 471 - 478.

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Quero, J. - C. & Golani, D. (1990) Description d' Engyprosopon hureaui n. sp. (Pleuronectiformes, Bothidae) du golfe d'Akaba. Cybium, 14 (1), 37 - 42.