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Sphyrnidae

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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.

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

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/865687AC8E6B4404FF0F0DF2FC0A7A88

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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)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/865687AC8E6B4404FF0F0DF2FC0A7A88 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/154496109 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/28027/taxon/865687AC8E6B4404FF0F0DF2FC0A7A88.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carcharhiniformes
Family
Sphyrnidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • 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.
  • Gohar, H. A. F. & Mazhar, F. M. M. (1964) The elasmobranchs of the north-western Red Sea. Publications of the Marine Biological Station Al-Ghardaqa, 13, 3 - 144, pls. 1 - 16, 2 maps.
  • 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.
  • Gilbert, C. R. (1967) A revision of the hammerhead sharks (family Sphyrnidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 119 (3539), 1 - 88, pls. 1 - 10.
  • Baranes, A. (2013) The Red Sea Sharks: Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology. Pensoft, Sofia and Moscow, 241 pp.
  • Ben-Tuvia, A. (1968) Report on the fisheries investigations of the Israel South Red Sea Expedition, 1962. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Haifa, 52, 21 - 55.
  • Tortonese, E. (1983) List of fishes observed near Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Journal of the Faculty of Marine Science, 3, 105 - 110.