PLATYCEPHALIDAE

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 : 58-59

PLATYCEPHALIDAE

Cociella punctata (Cuvier 1829)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Golani, 1999).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993, as Cociella crocodila ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Hassanine 2005, as Cociella crocodila ).

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

Grammoplites suppositus (Troschel 1840)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Knapp 1979), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indian Ocean: Somalia and Persian Gulf east to Sri Lanka.

Onigocia bimaculata Knapp, Imamura & Sakashita 2000

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Knapp et al. 2000), Israel ( Knapp et al. 2000).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Comoros and Mauritius east to Society Islands.

Papilloculiceps longiceps (Cuvier 1829)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Platycephalus tentaculatus ; Gruvel 1936, as Platycephalus longiceps ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Platycephalus tentaculatus ; Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Platycephalus longiceps ), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829b, as Platycephalus longiceps ).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman and Gulf of Aden south to northern South Africa and Madagascar.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).

Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Tillier 1902, as Platycephalus insidiator ; Bayoumi 1972).

Gulf of Aqaba:

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Platycephalus insidiator ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Platycephalus insidiator ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966).

Rogadius pristiger (Cuvier 1829)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Bayoumi 1972, as Platycephalus tuberculatus ; Sabrah et al. 2015, as Rogadius asper ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Platycephalus tuberculatus ; Dor 1970).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Knapp 1979, as Rogadius asper ).

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

Sorsogona prionota (Sauvage 1873)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Knapp 1979).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Kotthaus 1980), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).

Thysanophrys springeri Knapp 2013

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Knapp 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Knapp 2013), Yemen ( Knapp 2013).

Remark: Red Sea records of Thysanophrys chiltonae (non Schultz 1966) are based on this species (see Knapp 2013).

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