MALACANTHIDAE

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 : 80-81

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MALACANTHIDAE

Branchiostegus sawakinensis Amirthalingam 1969

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Porter & Diamant 1984), Jordan ( Ajiad 1987a).

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Amirthalingam 1969).

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

* Hoplolatilus geo Fricke & Kacher 1982

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Fricke & Kacher 1982).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Fricke & Kacher 1982).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Hoplolatilus oreni ( Clark & Ben-Tuvia 1973)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Clark & Ben-Tuvia 1973, as Asymmetrurus oreni ; Randall & Dooley 1974). General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.

Malacanthus brevirostris Guichenot 1848

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Clark & Ben-Tuvia 1973, as Malacanthus hoedtii ), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Marshall 1952, as Malacanthus hoedti ).

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

Malacanthus latovittatus (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Rüppell 1835, as Labrus latovittatus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Fricke & Kacher 1982), Israel ( Clark & Ben-Tuvia 1973).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Fricke & Kacher 1982).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Line islands.

References

Ajiad, A. M. (1987 a) First record of Aulacocephalus temmincki Bleeker, 1857 from the Red Sea and four rare species from Aqaba, Jordan. Cybium, 11 (1), 104 - 105.

Amirthalingam, C. (1969) A new fish from the Red Sea. Sudan Notes and Records, 50, 129 - 133, pls. 1 - 3.

Clark, E. & Ben-Tuvia, A. (1973) Red Sea fishes of the family Branchiostegidae with a description of a new genus and species Asymmetrurus oreni. Contributions to the knowledge of the Red Sea No. 51. Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Sea Fisheries Research Station Haifa, 60, 63 - 74.

Fricke, H. - W. & Kacher, H. (1982) A mound-building deep water sand tilefish of the Red Sea: Hoplolatilus geo n. sp. (Perciformes: Branchiostegidae). Observations from a research submersible. Senckenbergiana Maritima, 14 (5 - 6), 245 - 257, pls. 1 - 2.

Khalaf, M. A (2004) Fish fauna of the Jordanian coast, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. JKAU Marine Science, 15, 23 - 50. https: // doi. org / 10.4197 / mar. 15 - 1.2

Marshall, N. B. (1952) The Manihine expedition to the Gulf of Aqaba 1948 - 1949. IX. Fishes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 1 (8), 221 - 252.

Porter, C. & Diamant, A. (1984) Note on the occurrence of freckled tilefish Branchiostegus sawakinensis Amirthalingam, 1969 (Branchiostegidae) in the northern Red Sea. Cybium, 8 (1), 98 - 99.

Randall, J. E. & Dooley, J. K. (1974) Revision of the Indo-Pacific branchiostegid fish genus Hoplolatilus, with descriptions of two new species. Copeia, 1974 (2), 457 - 471. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1442537

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]