HAEMULIDAE

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 : 96-98

HAEMULIDAE

* Diagramma punctatum Cuvier 1830

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Plectorhinchus pictus ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Diagramma pictum ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diagramma cinerascens and D. umbrinum ), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895), Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Diagramma picta punctata ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Diagramma pictum ).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Plectorhinchus albovittatus (Rüppell 1838)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Diagramma albovittatum ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983, as Plectorhynchus harrawayi ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands, Fiji and Tonga. Plectorhinchus flavomaculatus (Cuvier 1830)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Diagramma flavomaculatum ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diagramma foetela ), Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Diagramma ornatum ), Saudi Arabia ( Gladstone 2002, as Plectorhynchus flavomaculatus ).

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

Plectorhinchus gaterinus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Randall & Johnson 2000), Israel ( Shpigel 1997), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Diagramma gaterina ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Plectorhynchus gaterina ), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Diagramma gaterina ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena gaterina ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Diagramma gaterina ).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf south to Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes.

Remark: A questionable record from the northern Aegean Sea ( Corsini-Foka and Sarlis 2016).

Plectorhinchus gibbosus (Lacepède 1802)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Diagramma crassispinum ). Yemen ( Lieske & Myers 2010). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline and Society islands.

Plectorhinchus schotaf (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Diagramma griseum ; Tortonese 1947a), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Diagramma schotaf ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève 1956).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India.

Plectorhinchus sordidus ( Klunzinger 1870)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Diagramma sordidum ), Eritrea ( Botros 1971, as Diagramma sordidum ), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Plectorhinchus sorolidus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf to Madagascar and western Mascarenes.

Pomadasys argenteus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Pristipoma argenteum ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena argentea ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Pomadasys kaakan (Cuvier 1830)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Pomadasys kaakan ).

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

Pomadasys maculatus (Bloch 1793)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Fowler & Steinitz 1956).

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Pomadasys maculatum ).

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

Pomadasys punctulatus (Rüppell 1838)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Pristipoma punctulatum ).

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

Pomadasys stridens (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Pristipoma stridens ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Pristipoma stridens ), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Pristipoma simmene ; Picaglia 1895, as Pristipoma stridens ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Pomadasys striatus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant in eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1977, as Rhonciscus stridens ).