PLOTOSIDAE, Bleeker, 1858

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 : 37

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Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg 1787)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1837, as Plotosus anguillaris ; El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: New record , based on SMNHTAU 15925, 15926 and 15927 (identify by M. Goren and A. Diamant).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Plotosus anguillaris ), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Plotosus anguillaris ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Silurus arab ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 2002).

References

Bamber, R. C. (1915) Reports on the marine biology of the Sudanese Red Sea, from collections made by Cyril Crossland, M. A., D. Sc., F. L. S. XXII. The Fishes. The Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 31 (210), 477 - 485, pl. 46.

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

Debelius, H. (2007) Red Sea reef guide. Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Arabian Peninsula. Richmond, Surrey, Circle, 1 - 321.

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.

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.