DIODONTIDAE

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 : 183-184

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9D80FE28-D378-4C7D-87D7-380F6B583BC1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5962577

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/865687AC-8ED1-44BF-FF0F-0C04FA917EB8

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Plazi

scientific name

DIODONTIDAE
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Cyclichthys orbicularis (Bloch 1785)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Cyclichthys orbicularis ).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Kotthaus 1979, as Chilomycterus orbicularis ), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1979, as Chilomycterus orbicularis ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Japan, Philippines and New Caledonia.

Cyclichthys spilostylus ( Leis & Randall 1982) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Leis & Randall 1982), Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Cyclichthys echinatus ; Leis & Randall 1982), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Philippines and New Caledonia; Galápagos Archipelago.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1993, as Chilomycterus spilostylus ).

Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Diodon holacanthus ); Kotthaus 1979, as Diodon paraholocanthus ).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Diodon hystrix Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983). General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Diodon liturosus Shaw 1804

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Bogorodsky et al. 2011a). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Bogorodsky et al. 2011a).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Society Islands.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Tetraodontiformes

Family

Diodontidae

Loc

DIODONTIDAE

Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald 2018
2018
Loc

Cyclichthys spilostylus (

Leis & Randall 1982
1982
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