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Soleidae

Description

SOLEIDAE

Aesopia cornuta (Kaup 1858)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Dor 1970, as Coryphaesopia cornuta).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Japan and Indonesia.

* Aseraggodes kruppi Randall & Bogorodsky in Randall, Bogorodsky & Mal 2013

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Randall & Bogorodsky in Randall et al. 2013b).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

* Aseraggodes macronasus Randall & Bogorodsky in Randall, Bogorodsky & Mal 2013

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Randall & Bogorodsky in Randall et al. 2013b).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.

Aseraggodes sinusarabici Chabanaud 1931

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1931).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

* Aseraggodes steinitzi Joglekar 1970

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Clark et al. 1968, as Aseraggodes sinusarabici; Jogeklar 1970).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea endemic.

Pardachirus marmoratus (Lacepède 1802)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Clark & George 1979), Israel (Clark & George 1979), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1830, as Achirus barbatus; Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Sri Lanka.

Solea aegyptiaca Chabanaud 1927

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Solea solea aegyptiaca; Chanet et al. 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Mediterranean Sea endemic.

Remark: Anti-Lessepsian migrant from eastern Mediterranean into Gulf of Suez (see Chanet et al. 2013).

* Soleichthys dori Randall & Munroe 2008

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Randall & Munroe 2008), Israel (Dor 1970, as Aesopia heterorhinos; Randall & Munroe 2008), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Soleichthys heterorhinos).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Randall & Munroe 2008).

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 pages 174-175, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Pleuronectiformes
Family
Soleidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Dor, M. (1970) Contributions to the knowledge of the Red Sea. No. 44. Nouveaux poissons pour la faune de la mer Rouge. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, Haifa, 54, 7 - 28.
  • Randall, J. E., Bogorodsky, S. V. & Mal, A. O. (2013 b) Four new soles (Pleuronectiformes: Soleidae) of the genus Aseraggodes from the western Indian Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 8, 1 - 17.
  • Chabanaud, P. (1931) Sur divers poissons soleiformes de la region Indo-Pacifique. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, 56, 291 - 305.
  • Clark, E. & George, A. (1979) Toxic soles, Pardachirus marmoratus from the Red Sea and P. pavoninus from Japan, with notes on other species. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 4 (2), 103 - 123. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00005447
  • Khalaf, M. A &. Disi, A. M. (1997) Fishes of the Gulf of Aqaba. Publications of the Marine Science Station, Aqaba, 8, 1 - 252.
  • Klunzinger, C. B. (1871) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. II. Theil. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 21, 441 - 688.
  • Kossmann, R. & Rauber, H. (1877) Fische. Wissenschftliche Reise in die Kustengebiete des Rothen Meeres. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorisch-Medizinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg, 1, 378 - 420, pls. 3 - 4.
  • Tortonese, E. (1983) List of fishes observed near Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Journal of the Faculty of Marine Science, 3, 105 - 110.
  • Gruvel, A. (1936) Contribution a l'etude de la bionomie generale et de l'exploration de la faune du canal de Suez. Memoires presentees a l'Institut d'Egypte, N. S., 29, 1 - 255, pls. 1 - 25, 1 color pl.
  • Randall, J. E. & Munroe, T. A. (2008) Soleichthys dori, a new sole (Pleuronectiformes: Soleidae) from the Red Sea. Electronic Journal of Ichthyology, Bulletin of the European Ichthyology Society, 2, 76 - 84.