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Elopidae

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ELOPIDAE

Elops machnata (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Golani 1999).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Elops saurus), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847a, as Elops saurus; Whitehead 1965), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Argentina machnata; see Fricke 2008).

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

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 4509 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/865687AC8E76441AFF0F0817FBEB7F70

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/2607566 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/7A6FFFD48E674408FF980F24FFD27E6D (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/9D80FE28-D378-4C7D-87D7-380F6B583BC1 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/865687AC8E76441AFF0F0817FBEB7F70 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/154496143 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/28027/taxon/865687AC8E76441AFF0F0817FBEB7F70.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Elopiformes
Family
Elopidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Niebuhr, C. (1775) Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit ... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. ex officina Molleri, Hauniae, 20 + xxxiv + 164 pp., map.
  • Klunzinger, C. B. (1871) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. II. Theil. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 21, 441 - 688.
  • Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. (1847 a) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dix-neuvieme. Suite du livre dix-neuvieme. Brochets ou Lucioides. Livre vingtieme. De quelques familles de Malacopterygiens, intermediaires entre les Brochets et les Clupes. P. Bertrand, Paris, xix + 544 + 6 pp., pls. 554 - 590. [not pp. 520 - 556, Valenciennes authored volume. Published as 1846]
  • Whitehead, P. J. P. (1965) A review of the elopoid and clupeoid fishes of the Red Sea and adjacent regions. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 12 (7), 225 - 281.
  • Fricke, R. (2008) Authorship, availability and validity of fish names described by Peter (Pehr) Simon Forsskal and Johann Christian Fabricius in the ' Descriptiones animalium' by Carsten Niebuhr in 1775 (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, New Series, 1, 1 - 76.