SPHYRNIDAE

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 : 13

SPHYRNIDAE

Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith 1834)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel 1936, as Sphyrna zygaena ; Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Sphyrna diplana ).

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Sphyrna diplana ), Eritrea ( Klunzinger 1871, as Zygaena erythraea ; Gilbert 1967), Saudi Arabia (Spaet et al. 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Baranes 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Ben-Tuvia 1968), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia 1968).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Zygaena mokarran ), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.