LUTJANIDAE

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 : 89-92

LUTJANIDAE

Aphareus furca (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Marshall 1952).

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Debelius 2007), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Aphareus furcatus ).

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

Aphareus rutilans Cuvier 1830

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Marshall 1952).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Aprion virescens Valenciennes 1830

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba ¯

Red Sea main basin: Yemen ( Debelius 2007).

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

Lutjanus argentimaculatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Mesoprion argentimaculatus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope argentimaculata ), Sudan ( Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Ehrenberg in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope macrolepis ; Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Diacope argentimaculata ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Society Islands. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).

Lutjanus bohar (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Allen & Talbot 1985), Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope bohar ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Saudi Arabia (Roux- Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope quadriguttata ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Pitcairn Group.

Lutjanus coeruleolineatus (Rüppell 1838)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Mesoprion coeruleolineatus ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Diacope coeruleo-lineata ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Diacope coeruleo-lineata ).

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

Lutjanus ehrenbergii (Peters 1869)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Mesoprion ehrenbergi ), Sudan ( Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea ( Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967, as Lutianus ehrenbergi ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline Islands and Fiji.

Lutjanus fulviflamma (Rüppell 1830)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Mesoprion fulviflamma ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Mesoprion fulviflamma ), Sudan ( Fowler 1931), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Diacope fulviflamma ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope fulviflamma ).

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

Remark: A single specimen was recorded from the Mediterranean (see Vella et al 2015).

Lutjanus fulvus (Forster 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea ( Allen & Talbot 1985).

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

Lutjanus gibbus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Mesoprion gibbus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Lutjanus lineatus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope gibba ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Eritrea ( Pellegrin 1912), Saudi Arabia ( Rüppell 1829, as Diacope coccinea ; Rüppell 1838, as Diacope melanura ; Roux-Estève 1956, as Lutianus gibbus ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Lutjanus indicus Allen, White & Erdmann 2013

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Allen & Talbot 1985 as L. russellii ), Eritrea ( Ben-Tuvia 1968 as L. russellii, Clark et al. 1968 as L. russellii ).

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

Lutjanus kasmira (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope kasmira ), Sudan ( Tortonese 1947a), Eritrea ( Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia ( Gladstone 2002), Yemen ( Kotthaus 1974a).

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

Lutjanus lutjanus Bloch 1790

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1829, as Diacope lineolata ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

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

Lutjanus monostigma ( Cuvier 1828)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope monostigma ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Mesoprion monostigma ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Pitcairn.

Lutjanus rivulatus ( Cuvier 1828)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Diacope rivulata ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau and Society Islands.

Lutjanus sanguineus ( Cuvier 1828)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Diacope erythrina ), Sudan ( Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope sanguinea ; Rüppell 1838, as Diacope erythrina ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Lutjanus sapphirolineatus Iwatsuki, Al-Mamry & Heemstra 2016

Red Sea: Egypt ( Haroun et al. 2017, as Lutjanus bengalensis ).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Giglioli 1889, as Genyoroge bengalensis, Allen & Talbot 1985 , as Lutjanus bengalensis ).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Somalia, Oman.

Remark: Previous Red Sea records of Lutjanus bengalensis (non Bloch 1790) are most probably based on this species (see Iwatsuki et al. 2016).

Lutjanus sebae (Cuvier 1816)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope sebae ), Eritrea ( Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia ( Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Remark: Two specimens were recorded in the Mediterranean, probably aquarium escapees ( Zenetos et al 2016; Deidum and Piraino, 2017).

Macolor niger (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope nigra ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena nigra ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Paracaesio sordidus Abe & Shinohara 1962

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Paracaesio xanthurus ), ( Debelius 2007, as Paracaesio caeruleus, Abu El-Regal 2017 ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: South Africa and Madagascar east to Marquesas and Pitcairn islands.

Pristipomoides filamentosus (Valenciennes 1830)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Zajonz 2007).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Centropristis filamentosus ), Eritrea ( Dor 1970, as Pristipomoides microlepis ), Saudi Arabia ( Trivedi et al. 2014).

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

Pristipomoides multidens (Day 1871)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes et al 2017), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004, as Pristipomoides typus) .

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Centropristis pristipoma ), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Pristipomoides argyrogrammicus ), Saudi Arabia ( Gladstone 2002, as Pristipomoides typus), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Pristipomoides sieboldii (Bleeker 1854)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Zajonz 2007).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Southeastern Atlantic: Vema Seamount; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Society islands.