LEIOGNATHIDAE, Gill, 1893

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 : 87-89

LEIOGNATHIDAE

Aurigequula fasciata (Lacepède 1803)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

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

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

* Equulites aethopops Suzuki & Kimura 2017

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( El-Ganainy et al 2005, as Leiognathus elongatus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Golani et al. 2011a, as Equulites elongatus ; Suzuki & Kimura 2017), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Equulites elongatus ).

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean ( Golani et al. 2011a, as Equulites elongatus ).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Equulites klunzingeri (Steindachner 1898)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Steindachner 1898a).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

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

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966, as Leiognathus klunzingeri ).

Equulites popei (Whitley 1932)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Suzuki & Kimura 2017).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Suzuki & Kimura 2017).

Eubleekeria splendens (Cuvier 1829)

Red Sea: (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Equula gomorah ).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Gazza minuta (Bloch 1795)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Gazza argentaria ), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1835, as Gazza equulaeformis ).

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

Leiognathus berbis (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber equula minimus ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber equula minimus ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Leiognathus equulus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Equula equula ), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to eastern Caroline Islands.

Photopectoralis bindus ( Valenciennes 1835)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Chabanaud 1932, as Leiognathus lineolatus ; Bayoumi 1972, as Leiognathus bindus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

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

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