TETRAODONTIDAE

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 : 181-183

TETRAODONTIDAE

Arothron diadematus ( Rüppell 1829)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952, as Amblyrhynchotes diadematus ), Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Tetrodon aff. diademata ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon nigropunctatus var. diadematus ), Sudan ( Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956, as Amblyrhynchotes nigropunctatus diadematus ), Saudi Arabia (Roux- Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Tetraodon nigropunctatus ), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Tetraodon hispidus , edjilis; see Fricke 2008).

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

Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Sanzo 1930, as Tetrodon perspicillaris ; Botros 1971, as Tetrodon hispidus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Randall et al. 2012), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon hispidus and Tetrodon pusillus ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Tetrodon hispidus ), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1829, as Tetraodon perspicillaris and Tetraodon semistriatus ; Picaglia 1895, as Tetrodon hispidus ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Tetraodon reticularis ; Tortonese 1983, as Arothron hispidus perspicillaris ; Randall et al. 2012).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.

Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Tetrodon immaculatus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Joannis 1835, as Tetraodon parvus ; Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon immaculatus ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Tetrodon immaculatus ), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1829, as Tetraodon sordidus ; Picaglia 1895, as Tetrodon immaculatus ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Ryukyu Islands and Philippines.

Arothron multilineatus Matsuura 2016

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Matsuura 2016).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, western Pacific: Ryukyu Islands.

Arothron stellatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Clark & Gohar 1953, as Arothron aerostaticus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani et al. 2008), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon stellatus ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Tetrodon stellatus ), Eritrea ( Borsieri 1904, as Tetrodon stellatus ), Saudi Arabia ( Rüppell 1829, as Tetraodon calamara ; Tortonese 1983), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1979).

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

Canthigaster cyanospilota Randall, Williams & Rocha 2008

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Debelius 2007, as Canthigaster coronata ; Randall et al. 2008; Lieske & Myers 2010, as Canthigaster coronata ), Israel (Randall et al. 2008), Jordan ( Marshall 1952, as Canthigaster cinctus ; Randall et al. 2008).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Clark & Gohar 1953, as Canthigaster cinctus ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Canthigaster coronata ).

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

Canthigaster margaritata ( Rüppell 1829)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Rüppell 1829, as Tetraodon margaritatus )

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), Israel ( Tortonese 1968), Jordan ( Bouchon et al. 1981).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon margaritatus ), Eritrea ( Sanzo 1930, as Tetrodon margaritatus ), Saudi Arabia ( Picaglia 1895, as Tetrodon margaritatus ).

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

Canthigaster pygmaea Allen & Randall 1977

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Golani 1999).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Allen & Randall 1977), Israel ( Allen & Randall 1977), Jordan ( Khalaf & Kochzius 2002). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Allen & Randall 1977), Sudan ( Allen & Randall 1977).

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

Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Ribeiro 1915

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1837, as Tetraodon lunaris ; Matsuura et al. 2011).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Tetrodon lunaris ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon lunaris ), Eritrea ( Giglioli 1889, as Tetrodon lunaris ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, Madagascar and Persian Gulf east to Indonesia and southern Japan.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean Sea, recorded as Lagocephelus spadiceus (see Matsuura et al 2011).

Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin 1789)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Clark & Gohar 1953).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993, as Lagocephalus scleratus ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon sceleratus ), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Tetrodon sceleratus ).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean Sea (see Golani & Levy, 2008).

* Lagocephalus suezensis Clark & Gohar 1953

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Clark & Gohar 1953).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).

Torquigener flavimaculosus Hardy & Randall 1983

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Rüppell 1829, as Tetraodon honkenji ; Hardy & Randall 1983).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Hardy & Randall 1983), Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Amblyrhynchotes hypselogeneion ; Hardy & Randall 1983), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon poecilonotus ), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Sphaeroides hypselogeneion ).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf, Seychelles and Madagascar. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).

Tylerius spinosissimus (Regan 1908)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Fricke et al. 2016a)

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Budker & Fourmanoir 1954, as Amblyrhynchotes spinosissimus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, Madagascar and Réunion east South China Sea, Indonesia and New Caledonia.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean Sea ( Corsini et al. 2005)