MONODACTYLIDAE

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 : 105

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MONODACTYLIDAE
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Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (new record, based on HUJ 10622, identified by M. Dor).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Psettus argenteus ), Sudan ( Borodin 1930, as Psettus falciformis ), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831, as Psettus rhombeus ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber rhombeus ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Mariana and Caroline islands and Samoa.

Borodin, N. A. (1930) Scientific results of the Yacht Ara Expedition during the years 1926 to 1930, while in command of William K. Vanderbilt. Fishes (collected in 1929). Bulletin Vanderbilt Marine Museum, 1 (2), 39 - 64, pls. 1 - 2.

Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. (1831) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome septieme. Livre septieme. Des Squamipennes. Livre huitieme. Des poissons a pharyngiens labyrinthiformes. F. G. Levrault, Paris, xxix + 531 pp., pls. 170 - 208. [Cuvier authored pp. 1 - 440, Valenciennes 441 - 531.]

Fricke, R. (2008) Authorship, availability and validity of fish names described by Peter (Pehr) Simon Forsskal and Johann Christian Fabricius in the ' Descriptiones animalium' by Carsten Niebuhr in 1775 (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, New Series, 1, 1 - 76.

Klunzinger, C. B. (1870) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. I. Theil. Percoiden-Mugiloiden. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 20, 669 - 834.

Niebuhr, C. (1775) Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit ... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. ex officina Molleri, Hauniae, 20 + xxxiv + 164 pp., map.