PRIACANTHIDAE, Günther, 1859

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 : 70-71

PRIACANTHIDAE

Priacanthus blochii Bleeker 1853

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Randall 1994c).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden and Seychelles east to Philippines and Samoa.

Priacanthus hamrur (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan ( Bouchon et al. 1981), Debelius 2007, as Heteropriacanthus cruentatus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870), Sudan ( Krupp 1990), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena hamrur ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena hamrur ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Remark: Two specimens were recorded in the Mediterranean (Erguden et al. in press).

Rriacanthus prolixus Starnes, 1988

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Northwestern Indian Ocean: Somalia east to Pakistan.

Remark: This species has not been recorded from the Red Sea but was recorded from the Mediterranean ( Gürlek et al. 2017). Since its northwestern Indian Ocean distribution it is evidently occurring in the Red Sea.

Priacanthus sagittarius Starnes 1988

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Réunion east to southern Japan, Philippines and Samoa. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean (see Golani et al. 2011c).

Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia in Dor 1984, as Pristigenys niphonia ), Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993, as Pristigenys niphonia ; Iwatsuki et al. 2012), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004, as Pristigenys niphonia ).

Red Sea main basin: southern Red Sea ( Iwatsuki et al. 2012)

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