SYNANCEIIDAE

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 : 56-57

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SYNANCEIIDAE

Choridactylus multibarbus Richardson 1848

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Froukh 2001).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Choridactylus mulitbarbis ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1979, as Choridactylus multibarbis ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Philippines.

Inimicus filamentosus (Cuvier 1829)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Golani, 1999).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Dor 1965), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Frøiland 1972).

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

Minous coccineus Alcock 1890

Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al. 2017, as Minous monodactylus ).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Frøiland 1972, as Minuous superciliosus ; Golani & Lerner 2007).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Minous monodactylus ; Frøiland 1972, as Minous superciliosus ; Matsunuma et al. 2017c), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b; Matsunuma et al. 2017c).

General distribution: Red Sea and Indo-West Pacific: South Africa east to Philippines.

Minous inermis Alcock 1889

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Matsunuma et al. 2017c).

General distribution: Red Sea, northern Indian Ocean: Somalia east to Andaman Sea ( Thailand).

Minous trachycephalus (Bleeker 1855)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Matsunuma et al. 2017c).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Matsunuma et al. 2017c), Saudi Arabia ( Matsunuma et al. 2017c).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Sri Lanka east to Philippines.

Synanceia nana Eschmeyer & Rama-Rao 1973

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Eschmeyer & Rama-Rao 1973).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Eschmeyer & Rama-Rao 1973).

Red Sea main basin: -

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf.

Synanceia verrucosa (Bloch & Schneider 1801)

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

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan ( Bouchon et al. 1981, as Synanceja verrucosa ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Synanceja verrucosa ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall, Tuamotu and Gambier islands. Remark: Lessepsian migrant int the Mediterranean (see Edelist et al 2011).

References

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Ben-Tuvia, A. & Steinitz, H. (1952) Report on a collection of fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Aqaba), Red Sea. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 2, 1 - 12.

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

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Eschmeyer, W. N. & Rama-Rao, K. V. (1973) Two new stonefishes (Pisces, Scorpaenidae) from the Indo-West Pacific, with a synopsis of the subfamily Synanceiinae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 39 (18), 337 - 382.

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Kotthaus, A. (1979) Fische des Indischen Ozeans. Ergebnisse der ichthyologischen Untersuchungen wahrend der Expedition des Forschungsschiffes ' Meteor' in den Indischen Ozean, Oktober 1964 bis Mai 1965. A. Systematischer Teil, XXI. Diverse Ordnungen. Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, Reihe D, Biologie, 28, 6 - 54.

Matsunuma, M., Bogorodsky, S. V., Mal, A. O., Ando, Y. & Motomura, H. (2017 c) Reinstatement of Minous inermis and M. trachycephalus (Synanceiidae) to the checklist of Red Sea fishes, with comments on M. monodactylus. Marine Biodiversity, 2017, 1 - 5. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 017 - 0716 - 1