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

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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).

References

Baranes, A. & Golani, D. (1993) An annotated list of deep-sea fishes collected in the northern Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba. Israel Journal of Zoology, 39, 299 - 336.

Bruss, R. (1987 a) Two new species of Uranoscopus Linnaeus, 1758, from the Red Sea: U. dollfusi n. sp. and U. bauchotae n. sp. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Serie 4, Section A, Zoologie, Biologie et Ecologie Animales, 8 (4), 955 - 967.

Bruss, R. (1987 c) Uranoscopus dahlakensis n. sp. und Neunachweis von U. scaber Linnaeus 1758 im Roten Meer (Pisces: Perciformes: Uranoscopidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 68 (1 / 3), 49 - 57.

Bruss, R. (1987 b) Tiefenwasser- und Tiefseefische aus dem Roten Meer. XIII. Uranoscopus marisrubri n. sp. aus dem zentralen und nordlichen Roten Meer (Pisces: Perciformes: Uranoscopidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 68 (1 / 3), 39 - 48.

Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. (1832) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome huitieme. Livre neuvieme. Des Scomberoides. F. G. Levrault, Paris, xix + 5 + 509 pp., pls. 209 - 245. [Cuvier authored pp. 1 - 470, Valenciennes 471 - 509, date of 1831 on title page]

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

Dor, M. (1970) Contributions to the knowledge of the Red Sea. No. 44. Nouveaux poissons pour la faune de la mer Rouge. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, Haifa, 54, 7 - 28.

Gruvel, A. (1936) Contribution a l'etude de la bionomie generale et de l'exploration de la faune du canal de Suez. Memoires presentees a l'Institut d'Egypte, N. S., 29, 1 - 255, pls. 1 - 25, 1 color pl.

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

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

Randall, J. E. (2005) Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 707 pp.

Randall, J. E. & Arnold, R. J. (2012) Uranoscopus rosette, a new species of stargazer (Uranoscopidae: Trachinoidei) from the Red Sea. Aqua International Journal of Ichthyology, 18 (4), 209 - 218.