ENGRAULIDAE, Gill, 1861

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 : 31-32

ENGRAULIDAE

Encrasicholina gloria Hata & Motomura 2016

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Whitehad 1965, as Stolephorus buccaneeri ; El-Ganainy et al 2005, as Stolephorus punetifer ; Hata & Motomura 2016).

Gulf of Aqaba:

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Hata & Motomura 2016).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean : Persian Gulf.

Remarks: Red Sea records of Encrasicholina punctifer (non Fowler 1938) are based on this species (see Hata & Motomura 2016). Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Hata & Motomura 2016).

Encrasicholina heteroloba (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936, as Engraulis heterolobus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Engraulis heteroloba ), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Engraulis heteroloba ), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline Islands, Samoa and Tonga. Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Tillier 1902).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Azov Sea, eastern Atlantic: Norway to South Africa including Madeira and Canary Islands; southwestern Indian Ocean.

Remark: Anti-Lessepsian migrant from eastern Mediterranean into Red Sea (see Whitehead 1965).

Stolephorus indicus (van Hasselt 1823)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Whitehead 1965), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen ( Whitehead 1965).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline, Mariana and Society islands. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean (see Fricke et al. 2015a).

Stolephorus insularis Hardenberg 1933

Gulf of Suez: Probably present, but not recorded.

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Probably present, but not recorded.

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to western Indonesia and South China Sea. Remark: This Indo-West Pacific species was recorded as a Lessepsian migrant from the southeastern Mediterranean by Fricke et al. (2012); it evidently arrived from the Gulf of Suez.

Thryssa baelama (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: New record , based on specimens HUJ 20178, 20180 and 20181 (identified by D. Golani).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Engraulis boelama ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Engraulis boelama ), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1848, as Engraulis boelama ), Saudi Arabia ( Whitehead 1965), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Thryssa setirostris ).

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