OPISTOGNATHIDAE, Bonaparte, 1835

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 : 133-134

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* Opistognathus dipharus Smith-Vaniz 2010 View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Ethiopia ( Dor 1970, as Opisthognahus muscatensis ; Smith-Vaniz 2010).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Opistognathus nigromarginatus Rüppell 1830

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1830).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Thailand and Vietnam.

* Stalix davidsheni Klausewitz 1985

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Smith-Vaniz 1974, as Stalix histrio ; Klausewitz 1985b).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.

References

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.

Klausewitz, W. (1985 b) Fische aus dem Roten Meer. XVII. A new species of the genus Stalix from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea (Pisces: Teleostei: Perciformes: Opistognathidae). Revue francaise d'Aquariologie Herpetologie, 12 (1), 17 - 22.

Smith-Vaniz, W. F. (1974) A review of the jawfish genus Stalix (Opistognathidae). Copeia, 1974 (1), 280 - 283. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1443045

Smith-Vaniz, W. F. (2010) New species of Indo-Pacific jawfishes (Opisthognathus: Opistognathidae) from the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Smithiana, Publications in Aquatic Biodiversity Bulletin, 12, 39 - 54.