MOLIDAE

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 : 184

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Masturus lanceolatus (Liénard 1841)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas.

Mola mola (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Orthagoriscus mola ).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas.

References

Khalaf, M. A (2004) Fish fauna of the Jordanian coast, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. JKAU Marine Science, 15, 23 - 50. https: // doi. org / 10.4197 / mar. 15 - 1.2

Klunzinger, C. B. (1871) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. II. Theil. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 21, 441 - 688.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Tetraodontiformes
Family	Molidae
Genus	Masturus

Specimens