PSEUDOCHROMIDAE, Müller & Troschel, 1849

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 : 67-69

PSEUDOCHROMIDAE

Chlidichthys auratus Lubbock 1975

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Lubbock 1975).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Lubbock 1975), Sudan ( Gill & Edwards 2004), Eritrea ( Gill & Edwards 2004), Saudi Arabia ( Isari et al. 2017), Yemen ( Gill & Edwards 2004).

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

* Chlidichthys rubiceps Lubbock 1975

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Lubbock 1975), Israel ( Lubbock 1975), Jordan ( Lubbock 1975).

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Lubbock 1975), Saudi Arabia ( Lubbock 1975), Yemen ( Gill & Edwards 2004). General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

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Haliophis guttatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Botros 1971).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Winterbottom 1985), Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Muraena guttata ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen ( Winterbottom 1985).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa to western Mascarenes.

*Pectinochromis lubbocki ( Edwards & Randall 1983)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Edwards & Randall 1983, as Pseudoplesiops lubbocki ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Edwards & Randall 1983, as Pseudoplesiops lubbocki ), Sudan ( Edwards & Randall 1983, as Pseudoplesiops lubbocki ), Saudi Arabia ( Edwards & Randall 1983, as Pseudoplesiops lubbocki ). General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Pseudochromis dixurus Lubbock 1975

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Lubbock 1975), Jordan ( Lubbock 1975).

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Lubbock 1975), Saudi Arabia ( Lubbock 1975).

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

* Pseudochromis flavivertex Rüppell 1835

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Lubbock 1975).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Lubbock 1975), Jordan ( Lubbock 1975).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), ( Lieske & Myers 2010), Sudan ( Lubbock 1975), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1835), Saudi Arabia ( Lubbock 1975), Yemen ( Lubbock 1975).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

* Pseudochromis fridmani Klausewitz 1968

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Klausewitz 1968b), Israel ( Klausewitz 1968b), Jordan ( Lubbock 1975).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Abel 1960, as Chlidichthys johnvoelkeri ; Klausewitz 1968b), Sudan ( Lubbock 1975), Saudi Arabia ( Lubbock 1975).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Pseudochromis nigrovittatus Boulenger 1897

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Yemen (Gill 2004).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf to Iran.

Pseudochromis olivaceus Rüppell 1835

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Botros 1971; Lubbock 1975).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Gill 2004).

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

* Pseudochromis pesi Lubbock 1975

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Lubbock 1975), Jordan ( Lubbock 1975), Saudi Arabia ( Lubbock 1975).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.

Pseudochromis sankeyi Lubbock 1975

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Lubbock 1975), Yemen (Gill 2004).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, western Indian Ocean : Gulf of Aden, East Africa .

* Pseudochromis springeri Lubbock 1975

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Lubbock 1975), Israel ( Lubbock 1975), Jordan ( Lubbock 1975).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), ( Lieske & Myers 2010), Sudan ( Lubbock 1975), Saudi Arabia ( Lubbock 1975).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.