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Belonidae

Description

BELONIDAE

Ablennes hians (Valenciennes 1846)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone melanostigma), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Belone schismatorhynchus), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846, as Belone melanostigma), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Platybelone platura (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone platura), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Belone platura). General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.

Tylosurus choram (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Belone choram).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Belone choram).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone choram), Yemen (Botros 1971, as Belone choram), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Belone choram), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998). General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India.

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

Tylosurus crocodilus (Péron & Lesueur 1821)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Strongylura crocodila).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone koseirensis), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846, as Belone crocodilus).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific.

Tylosurus melanotus (Bleeker 1850)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone appendiculatus).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Revillagigedo, Clipperton and Cocos islands (eastern Pacific).

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 42-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Beloniformes
Family
Belonidae
Taxon rank
family

References

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  • Ben-Tuvia, A. & Steinitz, H. (1952) Report on a collection of fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Aqaba), Red Sea. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 2, 1 - 12.
  • Klunzinger, C. B. (1871) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. II. Theil. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 21, 441 - 688.
  • Bamber, R. C. (1915) Reports on the marine biology of the Sudanese Red Sea, from collections made by Cyril Crossland, M. A., D. Sc., F. L. S. XXII. The Fishes. The Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 31 (210), 477 - 485, pl. 46.
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