MORONIDAE, Jordan & Evermann, 1896

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 : 67

MORONIDAE

Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Steindachner 1895, as Labrax lupus ; Gruvel 1936, as Morone labrax ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Golani & Lerner 2007), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: Norway and Iceland to Senegal.

Remark: Originally in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; introduced in the Red Sea.

Dicentrarchus punctatus (Bloch 1792)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Steindachner 1895, as Labrax orientalis ; Ben-Tuvia 1971).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Ben-Tuvia, 1971).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic: English Channel to Senegal.

Remark: Anti-Lessepsian migrant from eastern Mediterranean into Red Sea (see Ben-Tuvia 1971).