OSTRACIIDAE, Rafinesque, 1810

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 : 180-181

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Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus 1758)

Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al. 2017).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Ostracion cornutus ), Yemen ( Clark & Gohar 1953).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Ogasawara Islands, Marquesas and Tuamotu islands.

Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus 1758

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

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan ( Bouchon et al. 1981).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Rüppell 1828), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Ostracion tuberculatus ), Eritrea ( Guichenot 1847), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967, as Ostracion tuberculatus ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Remark: Two specimens were recorded from the eastern Medierranean Sea ( Bariche 2011).

Ostracion cyanurus Rüppell 1828

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Tortonese 1968), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Sudan ( Clark & Gohar 1953), Eritrea ( Sanzo 1930), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1828).

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

Tetrosomus gibbosus (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937, as Ostracion turritus ; El-Ganainy et al 2005, as Tetrasomus gibbosus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Lieske & Myers 2010), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Rhineosoma gibbosus ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Ostracion turritus ), Sudan ( Sanzo 1930, as Ostracion turritus ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1828, as Ostracion turritus ; Tortonese 1956, as Rhinesomus gibbosus ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Ostracion turritus ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Spanier & Goren 1988).

References

Bariche, M. (2011) First record of the cube boxfish Ostracion cubicus (Ostraciidae) and additional records of Champsodon vorax (Champsodontidae) from the Mediterranean. Aqua International Journal of Ichthyology, 17 (4), 181 - 184.

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

Bouchon, C., Jaubert, J. & Bouchon-Navaro, Y. (1981) Evolution of a semi-artificial reef built by transplanting coral heads. Tethys, 10 (2), 173 - 176.

Clark, E. & Gohar, H. A. F. (1953) The fishes of the Red Sea: Order Plectognathi. Publications of the Marine Biological Station Al-Ghardaqa, Red Sea, 8, 1 - 80, 2 maps, pls. 1 - 5.

El-Ganainy, A. A. H., Yassien, M. H. & Ibrahim, E. A. (2005) Bottom trawl discards in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research, 21 (Special Issue), 240 - 255.

Fricke, R. (2008) Authorship, availability and validity of fish names described by Peter (Pehr) Simon Forsskal and Johann Christian Fabricius in the ' Descriptiones animalium' by Carsten Niebuhr in 1775 (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, New Series, 1, 1 - 76.

Gruvel, A. & Chabanaud, P. (1937) Missions A. Gruvel dans le canal de Suez. II. Poissons. Memoires de l'Institut d'Egypte, New Series, 35, 1 - 30.

Guichenot, A. (1847) Poissons. In: Lefebre, T. (Ed.), Voyage en Abyssinie, execute pendant les annees 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, par une commission scientifique. Part 4. Tome 6. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, pp. 227 - 238.

Haroun, E. S., Akel, K. & Karachle, P. K. (2017) The marine ichthyofauna of Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 21 (3), 81 - 116. https: // doi. org / 10.21608 / ejabf. 2017.4130

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.

Lieske, E. & Myers, R. (2010) Korallenriff-Fuhrer Rotes Meer. 2 nd Edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart, 398 pp.

Niebuhr, C. (1775) Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit ... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. ex officina Molleri, Hauniae, 20 + xxxiv + 164 pp., map.

Picaglia, L. (1895) Pesci del Mar Rosso pescati nella campagna idrografica della Regia Nave Scilla nel 1891 - 92; coll' aggiunta delle specie del Mar Rosso e del Golfo di Aden ... Atti della Societa dei Naturalisti di Modena, Series 3, 13, 22 - 40.

Roux-Esteve, R. & Fourmanoir, P. (1955) Poissons captures par la mission de la Calypso en Mer Rouge. Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique Monaco, New Series, 30 (7), 195 - 203.

Sanzo, L. (1930) Ricerche biologiche su materiali raccolti dal Prof. L. Sanzo nella Campagna Idrografica nel Mar Rosso della J. N. Ammiraglio Magnaghi 1923 - 1924. (VII) Plectognathi. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche R. Comitato Talassografico Italiano, Memoria, 167, 1 - 111, pls. 1 - 7.

Spanier, E. & Goren, M. (1988) An Indo-Pacific trunkfish Tetrosomus gibbosus (Linnaeus): first record of the family Ostracionidae in the Mediterranean. Journal of Fish Biology, 32 (5), 797 - 798. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1095 - 8649.1988. tb 05420. x

Tortonese, E. (1956) Spedizione subacquea italiana nel Mar Rosso. Ricerche zoologiche. IV. Plagiostomi. VI. Plettognati. Rivista di Biologia Coloniale, 14, 5 - 21 + 73 - 86.

Tortonese, E. (1968) Fishes from Eilat (Red Sea). Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 51, 6 - 30.