Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants Author Golani, Daniel Author Fricke, Ronald text Zootaxa 2018 2018-11-05 4509 1 1 215 journal article 28027 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1 6c170c2b-8792-4173-ac41-2aa1fe2b7ab7 1175-5326 2607566 9D80FE28-D378-4C7D-87D7-380F6B583BC1 OSTRACIIDAE 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 ).