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

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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.

References

Bogorodsky, S. Y., Randall, J. E. & Golani, D. (2011 a) Four new records of shore fishes for the Red Sea, with notes on Parupeneus heptacanthus and Diodon liturosus. Zootaxa, 3057, 49 - 60.

Debelius, H. (2007) Red Sea reef guide. Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Arabian Peninsula. Richmond, Surrey, Circle, 1 - 321.

Golani D. (1993) Trophic adaptation of Red Sea fishes to the eastern Mediterranean environment - review and new data. Israel Journal of Zoology, 39, 391 - 402.

Khalaf, M. A &. Disi, A. M. (1997) Fishes of the Gulf of Aqaba. Publications of the Marine Science Station, Aqaba, 8, 1 - 252.

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

Kotthaus, A. (1979) Fische des Indischen Ozeans. Ergebnisse der ichthyologischen Untersuchungen wahrend der Expedition des Forschungsschiffes ' Meteor' in den Indischen Ozean, Oktober 1964 bis Mai 1965. A. Systematischer Teil, XXI. Diverse Ordnungen. Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie, 28, 6 - 54.

Leis, J. M. & Randall, J. E. (1982) Chilomycterus spilostylus, a new species of Indo-Pacific burrfish (Pisces, Tetraodontiformes, Diodontidae). Records of the Australian Museum, 34 (3), 363 - 371, 1 pl.

Steinitz, H. & Ben-Tuvia, A. (1955) Fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Aqaba), Red Sea. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 11, 1 - 15.

Tortonese, E. (1983) List of fishes observed near Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Journal of the Faculty of Marine Science, 3, 105 - 110.