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Serranidae

Description

SERRANIDAE

Aethaloperca rogaa (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Randall & Heemstra 1991), Israel (Diamant & Shpigel 1985).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Serranus rogaa), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Serranus rogaa; Randall & Heemstra 1991), Eritrea (Randall & Heemstra 1991), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Perca rogaa and P. lunaria; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific, East Africa east to Marshall Islands, Fiji and Samoa.

Anyperodon leucogrammicus (Valenciennes 1828)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1956).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Serranus micronotatus; Randall & Heemstra 1991), Sudan (Randall & Heemstra 1991), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Serranus micronotatus; Randall & Heemstra 1991), Saudi Arabia (Randall & Heemstra 1991).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall and Phoenix islands and Tonga.

Aulacocephalus temminckii Bleeker 1854

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Ajiad 1987a).

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Serranidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • 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.
  • Randall, J. E. & Heemstra, P. C. (1991) Revision of Indo-Pacific groupers (Perciformes: Serranidae: Epinephelinae), with descriptions of five new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes, 20, 1 - 332, pls. 1 - 41.
  • Diamant, A. & Shpigel, M. (1985) Interspecific feeding associations of groupers (Teleostei: Serranidae) with octopuses and moray eels in the Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 13 (2), 153 - 159. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00002584
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Cuvier, G. & Valenciennes, A. (1828) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisieme. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoides. F. G. Levrault, Paris, xxi + 2 490, pls. 9 - 40. [Valenciennes author of pp. 238 - 249, 262 - 386, Cuvier the remainder]
  • Steinitz, H. & Ben-Tuvia, A. (1956) Two rare fishes from Eilat, Gulf of ' Aqaba. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel, 14, 191 - 192.
  • Ajiad, A. M. (1987 a) First record of Aulacocephalus temmincki Bleeker, 1857 from the Red Sea and four rare species from Aqaba, Jordan. Cybium, 11 (1), 104 - 105.