MOBULIDAE, 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 : 18

MOBULIDAE

Mobula alfredi (Krefft 1868)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Kessel et al. 2017, as Manta alfredi ), Saudi Arabia ( Braun et al. 2015, as Manta alfredi ).

General distribution: Eastern Atlantic; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago .

Mobula birostris (Walbaum 1792)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Manta ehrenbergi ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Bayoumi 1959, as Manta ehrenbergi ), Sudan ( Tortonese 1956, as Manta birostris ehrenbergi ), Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956, as Manta birostris ehrenbergi ), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967, as Manta birostris ).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas.

Mobula kuhlii (Müller & Henle 1841)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Mobula diabolus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Bayoumi 1959), Eritrea ( Tortonese 1956, as Mobula diabolus ; Randall 1994c, as Mobula thurstoni ; Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016), Saudi Arabia ( Spaet & Berumen 2015).

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

Remark: Red Sea records of Mobula eregoodootenkee are based on this species (see White & Last 2016c).

Mobula tarapacana (Philippi 1892)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd 1908)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016), Saudi Arabia ( Notarbartolo-di-Sciara et al. 2016).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas.