LEIOGNATHIDAE, Gill, 1893

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 : 87-89

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Aurigequula fasciata (Lacepède 1803)

Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al. 2017).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau, Tonga and Samoa.

* Equulites aethopops Suzuki & Kimura 2017

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( El-Ganainy et al 2005, as Leiognathus elongatus View in CoL ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Golani et al. 2011a, as Equulites elongatus ; Suzuki & Kimura 2017), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Equulites elongatus ).

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean ( Golani et al. 2011a, as Equulites elongatus ).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Equulites klunzingeri (Steindachner 1898)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Steindachner 1898a).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966, as Leiognathus klunzingeri ).

Equulites popei (Whitley 1932)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Suzuki & Kimura 2017).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Philippines.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Suzuki & Kimura 2017).

Eubleekeria splendens (Cuvier 1829)

Red Sea: (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Equula gomorah ).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Gazza minuta (Bloch 1795)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Gazza argentaria ), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1835, as Gazza equulaeformis ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Society Islands.

Leiognathus berbis (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber equula minimus ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber equula minimus ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Indonesia.

Leiognathus equulus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Equula equula ), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to eastern Caroline Islands.

Photopectoralis bindus ( Valenciennes 1835) View in CoL

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Chabanaud 1932, as Leiognathus lineolatus View in CoL ; Bayoumi 1972, as Leiognathus bindus View in CoL ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to Philippines and Fiji.

Bayoumi, A. R. (1972) Recent biological investigations in the Red Sea along the A. R. E. coasts. 1. On some demersal fishes from the Red Sea with notes on migration of fish through the Suez Canal. Bulletin of the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Cairo, 2, 157 - 183.

Ben-Tuvia, A. (1966) Red Sea fishes recently found in the Mediterranean. Copeia, 1966 (2), 254 - 275. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1441133

Bogorodsky, S. V., Alpermann, T. J., Mal, A. O. & Gabr, M. H. (2014 b) Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea. Zootaxa, 3852 (4), 401 - 437. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3852.4.1

Chabanaud, P. (1932) Poissons recueillis dans le Grand Lac Amer (isthme de Suez) par M. le Professeur A. Gruvel, en 1932. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Series 2, 4 (7), 822 - 835.

Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. (1835) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dixieme. Suite du livre neuvieme. Scomberoides. Livre dixieme. De la famille des Teuthyes. Livre onzieme. De la famille des Taenioides. Livre douzieme. Des Atherines. F. G. Levrault, Paris, xxiv + 482 + 2 pp., pls. 280 - 306. [Valenciennes authored volume]

El-Ganainy, A. A. H., Yassien, M. H. & Ibrahim, E. A. (2005) Bottom trawl discards in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research, 21 (Special Issue), 240 - 255.

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.

Golani, D., Fricke, R. & Appelbaum-Golani, B. (2011 a) First record of the Indo-Pacific slender ponyfish Equulites elongatus (Gunther, 1874) (Perciformes: Leiognathidae) in the Mediterranean. Aquatic Invasions, 6 (Supplement 1), 75 - 77. [S 75 - S 77] https: // doi. org / 10.3391 / ai. 2011.6. S 1.017

Haroun, E. S., Akel, K. & Karachle, P. K. (2017) The marine ichthyofauna of Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 21 (3), 81 - 116. https: // doi. org / 10.21608 / ejabf. 2017.4130

Klunzinger, C. B. (1871) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. II. Theil. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 21, 441 - 688.

Klunzinger, C. B. (1884) Die Fische des Rothen Meeres. Eine kritische Revision mit Bestimmungstabellen. I. Teil. Acanthopteri veri Owen. E. tSchweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung (E. Koch), Stuttgart, ix + 133 + [13] pp., 13 pls.

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.

Ruppell, W. P. E. S. (1835 - 1838) Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehorig. Fische des Rothen Meeres. Siegmund Schmerber, Frankfurt am Main, ii + 148 pp., 33 pls. [1835: pp. 1 - 28, pls. 1 - 7; 1836: pp. 29 - 52, pls. 8 - 14; 1837: pp. 53 - 80, pls. 15 - 21; 1838: pp. 81 - 148, pls. 22 - 33]

Steindachner, F. (1898 a) Uber einige neue Fischarten aus dem rothen Meere, gesammelt wahrend der I. und II. Osterreichischen Expedition nach dem rothen Meere in den Jahren 1895 - 1896 und 1897 - 1898. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 107, 780 - 788, pls. 1 - 2.

Suzuki, H. & Kimura, S. (2017) Taxonomic revision of the Equulites elongatus (Gunther 1874) species group (Perciformes: Leiognathidae) with the description of a new species. Ichthyological Research, 64 (3), 339 - 352. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10228 - 017 - 0572 - 9

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Leiognathidae

Genus

Aurigequula