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Clupeidae

Description

CLUPEIDAE

Amblygaster sirm (Walbaum 1792)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bertin 1943, as Sardinella sirm).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Clupea liogaster), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea sirm), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to northern Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Samoa and Tonga.

Herklotsichthys punctatus (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Harengula punctata).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Whitehead 1965), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Whitehead 1965), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847a, as Harengula punctata), Saudi Arabia (Whitehead 1965).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant in eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1977).

Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Clupea quadrimaculata).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani et al. 2008), Jordan (Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Clupea venenosa), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Clupea moluccensis), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea quadrimaculata), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002).

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

Sardinella albella (Valenciennes 1847)

Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea kowal; Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Eritrea (Giglioli 1889, as Clupea kowal; Whitehead 1965, as Sardinella fimbriata; Stern et al. 2016).

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

Sardinella gibbosa (Bleeker 1849)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1933, as Harengula dollfusi; Stern et al. 2014b).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Stern et al. 2014b).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Stern et al. 2014b).

Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes 1847

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Bogorodsky et al. 2011a).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Somalia and Gulf of Aden east to India.

Spratelloides delicatulus (Bennett 1832)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Budker & Fourmanoir 1954). Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Whitehead 1965), Israel (Fowler & Steinitz 1956), Jordan (Froukh 2001, Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Sudan (Botros 1971), Eritrea (Whitehead 1965), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Stolephorus delicatulus).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).

Spratelloides gracilis (Temminck & Schlegel 1846)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1932).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Whitehead 1965), Israel (Whitehead 1965), Jordan (Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Borsieri 1904), Saudi Arabia (Isari et al. 2017, as Sprateloides gracilis).

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

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 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Clupeiformes
Family
Clupeidae
Taxon rank
family

References

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