RHINOBATIDAE

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 : 14-15

RHINOBATIDAE

Glaucostegus halavi (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Rhinobatus halavi ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Rhinobatus granulatus ), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Rhinobatus halavi ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja halavi ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Remark: A single specimen was recorded in Tunisia as a Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean ( Ben Souissi et al 2007).

Glaucostegus thouin (Anonymous 1798)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Duméril 1865, as Rhinobatus thouini ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Pellegrin 1912, as Rhinobatus thouini ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: India east to Indonesia.

Rhina ancylostoma Bloch & Schneider 1801

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia ( Debelius 2007), ( Spaet & Berumen 2015).

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

Rhinobatos punctifer Compagno & Randall 1987

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Randall & Compagno 1995), Israel ( Compagno & Randall 1987), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja djiddensis ; see Fricke 2008).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Rhynchobatus djeddensis ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja djiddensis ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja djiddensis ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East and South Africa to Madagascar, Réunion and Persian Gulf.