URANOSCOPIDAE

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 : 135-136

URANOSCOPIDAE

Remark: Specimens from the Gulf of Suez (HUJ 8534) and Gulf of Aqaba (HUJ 4917 and 6457) were identified as Uranosopus fuscomaculatus by H. Kishimoto; however, this is certainly a misidentification, as this species is restricted to the southwestern Pacific.

Uranoscopus affinis Cuvier 1829

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: India east to southern Japan, Philippines and Northern Australia.

Remark: Three Red Sea specimens (HUJ 5496, 9861 and 13441) were identified as U. affinis by H. Kishimoto.

* Uranoscopus bauchotae Brüss 1987

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Brüss 1987a).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Gulf of Suez endemic.

* Uranoscopus dahlakensis Brüss 1987

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Brüss 1987c).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Uranoscopus dollfusi Brüss 1987

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Brüss 1987a).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Uranoscopus guttatus Cuvier 1829

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: India.

* Uranoscopus marisrubri Brüss 1987

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Brüss 1987b).

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

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Brüss 1987b).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

* Uranoscopus rosette Randall & Arnold 2012

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Randall & Arnold 2012), Israel ( Dor 1970, as Uranoscopus fuscomaculatus ; Randall & Arnold 2012), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Uranoscopus fuscomaculatus ; Randall & Arnold 2012).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007 as Uranoscopus dollfusi ), ( Randall & Arnold 2012).

General distribution: Northern Red Sea endemic.

Remark: Previous Red Sea records of Uranoscopus sulphureus (non Valenciennes 1832) (e.g. Randall 2005, Lieske & Myers 2010) are based on this species.

Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Brüss 1987c).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: British Isles to Morocco (rarely to Senegal), including Madeira.

Remark: Anti-Lessepsian migrant from the Mediterranean (see Brüss 1987c).