AETOBATIDAE, Agassiz, 1858

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 : 17

AETOBATIDAE

Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl 1823)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Aetobatus narinari ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Aetobatis narinari ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Aetobatis narinari ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Myliobatis eeltenkee ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja mula , R. tajara ; see Fricke 2008; Spaet & Berumen 2015); Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja tajara ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Remark: Records of Aetobatus narinari (non Euphrasen 1790) are based on this species (see White & Last 2016b).