CIRRHITIDAE

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 : 118

CIRRHITIDAE

Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (Bleeker 1855)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Cirrhitichthys aprinus ), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Cirrhites aprinus ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1976, as Cirrhitichthys aureus ).

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

Cirrhitus spilotoceps Schultz 1950

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Cirrhitichthys maculatus ), Sudan ( Gaither & Randall 2013), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829a, as Cirrhites maculatus ; Gaither & Randall 2013), Saudi Arabia ( Gaither & Randall 2013).

Remark: Red Sea records of Cirrhitus pinnulatus (non Forster 1801) are based on C. spilotoceps (see Gaither & Randall 2013).

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

Oxycirrhites typus Bleeker 1857

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Debelius 2007), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: Madagascar and Seychelles east to Panama.

Paracirrhites forsteri (Schneider 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Cirrhites forsteri ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group.