Atherinidae Risso 1827
Authors/Creators
Description
* Atherinomorus forskalii (Rüppell 1838)
Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Atherina pectoralis; Kimura et al. 2007).
Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Alanetta forskali; Bucciarelli et al. 2002, as Atherinomorus lacunosus; Kimura et al. 2007), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Atherinomorus lacunosus).
Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Atherina Forskalii; Abu El-Regal et al. 2014), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Atherina pinguis), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Atherina pectoralis; Giglioli 1889, as Atherina Forskalii), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Atherina hepsetus; see Fricke 2008; Kimura et al. 2007).
General distribution: Red Sea endemic.
Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Norman 1927, as Atherina pinguis; Kimura et al. 2007).
Atherinomorus lacunosus (Forster in Bloch & Schneider 1801)
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: ¯
Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Atherina pinguis; Abu El-Regal et al. 2014), Eritrea (Botros 1971, as Atherina pinguis; Bucciarelli et al. 2002), Saudi Arabia (Smith 1965a, as Pranesus pinguis ruppelli; Gladstone 2002; Kimura et al. 2007).
General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago.
* Hypoatherina gobio (Klunzinger 1884)
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Smith 1965a, as Allanetta afra; Golani & Lerner 2007, as Hypoatherina temminckii).
Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Atherina cylindrica; Klunzinger 1884, as Atherina gobio; Sasaki & Kimura 2014), Eritrea (Sasaki & Kimura 2014), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Atherina afra).
General distribution: Red Sea endemic.
* Hypoatherina golanii Sasaki & Kimura 2012
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Sasaki & Kimura 2012), Israel (Sasaki & Kimura 2012).
Red Sea main basin: ¯
Remark: Previous records of Hypoatherina barnesi (non Schultz 1953) are based on this species (see Sasaki & Kimura 2012).
General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Risso
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Lophiiformes
- Family
- Atherinidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Atherinidae Risso, 1827 sec. Golani & Fricke, 2018
References
- Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. (1835) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dixieme. Suite du livre neuvieme. Scomberoides. Livre dixieme. De la famille des Teuthyes. Livre onzieme. De la famille des Taenioides. Livre douzieme. Des Atherines. F. G. Levrault, Paris, xxiv + 482 + 2 pp., pls. 280 - 306. [Valenciennes authored volume]
- Kimura, S., Golani, D., Iwatsuki, Y., Tabuchi, M. & Yoshino, T (2007) Redescriptions of the Indo-Pacific atherinid fishes Atherinomorus forskalii, Atherinomorus lacunosus, and Atherinomorus pinguis. Ichthyological Research, 54 (2), 145 - 159. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10228 - 006 - 0386 - 7
- Steinitz, H. & Ben-Tuvia, A. (1955) Fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Aqaba), Red Sea. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 11, 1 - 15.
- Bucciarelli, G., Golani, D. & Bernardi, G. (2002) Genetic cryptic species as biological invaders: the case of a Lessepsian fish migrant, the hardyhead silverside Atherinomorus lacunosus. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 273, 143 - 149. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0022 - 0981 (02) 00138 - 7
- Khalaf, M. A &. Disi, A. M. (1997) Fishes of the Gulf of Aqaba. Publications of the Marine Science Station, Aqaba, 8, 1 - 252.
- Martens, E. von (1867) Verzeichniss der von Dr. E. Schweinfurth im Sommer 1864 auf seiner Reise am Rothen Meere gesammelten und nach Berlin eingesendeten zoologischen Gegenstande. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft zu Wien, 1866, 377 - 382.
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- 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.
- Giglioli, E. H. (1889) Note intorno agli Animali Vertebrati raccolti dal Conte Augusto Boutourline e dal Dr. Leopoldo Trasversi ad Assab e nello Scioa negli anni 1884 - 87. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, (2) 6, 1 - 73.
- Niebuhr, C. (1775) Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit ... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. ex officina Molleri, Hauniae, 20 + xxxiv + 164 pp., map.
- Fricke, R. (2008) Authorship, availability and validity of fish names described by Peter (Pehr) Simon Forsskal and Johann Christian Fabricius in the ' Descriptiones animalium' by Carsten Niebuhr in 1775 (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, New Series, 1, 1 - 76.
- Norman, J. R. (1927) Zoological results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal, 1924. Report on the fishes. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 22 (3), 12, 375 - 390.
- Klunzinger, C. B. (1870) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. I. Theil. Percoiden-Mugiloiden. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 20, 669 - 834.
- Botros, G. A. (1971) Fishes of the Red Sea. Oceanography and Marine Biology, Annual Review, 9, 221 - 348.
- Smith, J. L. B. (1965 a) Fishes of the family Atherinidae of the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean with a new freshwater genus and species from Madagascar. Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, 31, 601 - 632, pls. 98 - 102.
- Gladstone, W. (2002) Fisheries of the Farasan Islands (Red Sea). Naga, 25 (3 - 4), 30 - 34.
- Klunzinger, C. B. (1884) Die Fische des Rothen Meeres. Eine kritische Revision mit Bestimmungstabellen. I. Teil. Acanthopteri veri Owen. E. tSchweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung (E. Koch), Stuttgart, ix + 133 + [13] pp., 13 pls.
- Marshall, N. B. (1952) The " Manihine " expedition to the Gulf of Aqaba 1948 - 1949. IX. Fishes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 1 (8), 221 - 252.
- Golani, D. & Lerner, A. (2007) A long-term study of the sandy shore ichthyofauna in the northern Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba) with reference to adjacent mariculture activity. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 14 (Supplement), 255 - 264.
- Sasaki, D. & Kimura, S. (2014) Taxonomic review of the genus Hypoatherina Schultz 1948 (Atheriniformes: Atherinidae). Ichthyological Research, 61 (3), 207 - 241. [1 - 35] https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10228 - 014 - 0391 - 1
- Roux-Esteve, R. & Fourmanoir, P. (1955) Poissons captures par la mission de la Calypso en Mer Rouge. Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique Monaco, New Series, 30 (7), 195 - 203.
- Sasaki, D. & Kimura, S. (2012) Descriptions of two new silversides, Hypoatherina golanii and Hypoatherina lunata, from the Indo-West Pacific (Atheriniformes: Atherinidae). Ichthyological Research, 60, 103 - 111. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10228 - 012 - 0318 - 7