FISTULARIIDAE, Stark, 1828

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 : 47

FISTULARIIDAE

Fistularia commersonii Rüppell 1838

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

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Diamant & Shpigel 1985, as Fistularia commersoni ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Atiya, 1991, Lieske & Myers 2010), Sudan ( Debelius 2007).

General distribution: Southeastern Atlantic: Ascension Island; Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean (see Golani, 2000).

Fistularia petimba Lacepède 1803

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

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952, as Fistularia villosa ), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Fistularia petimba ), Jordan ( Bouchon et al. 1981).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Fistularia serrata and F. villosa ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Fistularia serrata ), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Fistularia villosa ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas, but not in eastern Pacific.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean ( Stern et al. 2017).