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Nettastomatidae

Description

NETTASTOMATIDAE

Facciolella karrerae Klausewitz 1995

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Klausewitz 1995), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1995).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.

Facciolella saurencheloides D'Ancona 1928

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Yemen (D'Ancona 1928, as Leptocephalus saurencheloides).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.

*Nettenchelys bellottii (D'Ancona 1928)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (D'Ancona 1928, as Leptocephalus bellottii).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

* Saurenchelys lateromaculata (D'Ancona 1928)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (D'Ancona 1928, as Leptocephalus lateromaculatus and Leptocephalus bellottii). General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

* Saurenchelys meteori Klausewitz & Zajonz 2000

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Klausewitz & Zajonz 2000).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

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 page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566

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Biodiversity

Family
Nettastomatidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anguilliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Klausewitz, W. (1995) Tiefenwasser- und Tiefseefische aus dem Roten Meer. XIX. Description of a new species of the deepsea eel genus Facciolella (Pisces: Osteichthyes: Anguilliformes: Nettastomatidae). Senckenbergiana Maritima, 26 (1 - 2), 45 - 50.
  • Klausewitz, W. & Zajonz, U. (2000) Saurenchelys meteori n. sp. from the deep Red Sea and redescriptions of the type specimens of Saurenchelys cancrivora Peters, 1865, Chlopsis fierasfer Jordan & Snyder, 1901 and Nettastoma elongatum Kotthaus, 1968 (Pisces: Nettastomatidae). Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 18, 337 - 355.