MONACANTHIDAE

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 : 178-180

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MONACANTHIDAE View in CoL View at ENA

Aluterus monoceros Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Sanzo 1930, as Aluteres monoceros ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Clark & Gohar 1953, as Alutera monoceros ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Remark: Two specimens were recorded in the western Mediterranean Sea, probably entered via Gibraltar ( Guallart and Vicent 2009).

Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck 1765)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Monacanthus scriptus ), Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956, as Alutera scripta ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983, as Alutera scripta ).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Amanses scopas (Cuvier 1829)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Lieske & Myers 2010), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Thamnaconus penicularius ).

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

* Brachaluteres fahaqa Clark & Gohar 1953 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Clark & Gohar 1953, as Brachaluteres baueri fahaqa ).

General distribution: Northern Red Sea endemic.

Cantherhines pardalis (Rüppell 1830)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1837, as Monacanthus pardalis ).

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

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

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

* Oxymonacanthus halli Marshall 1952

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), ( Lieske & Myers 2010), Israel (Fishelson 1995).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Marshall 1952), Sudan ( Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Oxymonacanthus longirostris ).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Paraluteres arqat Clark & Gohar 1953 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Clark & Gohar 1953).

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

Paramonacanthus nematophorus (Günther 1870)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Klausewitz 1983a, as Paramonacanthus oblongus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Fowler & Steinitz 1956, as Monacanthus cirrosus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Clark & Gohar 1953, as Paramonacanthus oblongus ; Budker & Fourmanoir 1954, as Paramonacanthus barnardi ), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Monacanthus cirrosus ), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1979, as Paramonacanthus sp.).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Seychelles.

Paramonacanthus pusillus ( Rüppell 1829) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Paramonacanthus falcatus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Monacanthus pusillus ), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1829, as Monacanthus pusillus ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1979, as Paramonacanthus falcatus ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and southern Japan.

Pervagor randalli Hutchins 1986

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Hutchins 1986), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Clark & Gohar 1953, as Pervagor melanocephalus ), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Monacanthus melanocephalus ; Hutchins 1986).

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

Stephanolepis diaspros Fraser-Brunner 1940 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Tillier 1902, as Monacanthus setifer ; Sanzo 1930, as Stephanolepis hispidus View in CoL ; Fraser-Brunner 1940).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Stephanolepis cf. oblongus ); Jordan ( Fraser-Brunner 1940). Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Clark & Gohar 1953, as Stephanolepis ocheticus ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Monacanthus setifer ), Yemen ( Sanzo 1930, as Stephanolepis hispidus ).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966).

* Thamnaconus erythraeensis Bauchot & Maugé 1978 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Bauchot & Maugé 1978, as Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis ), Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993, as Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis ).

Red Sea main basin: -

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

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