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Plesiopidae Günther 1861

Description

PLESIOPIDAE

* Acanthoplesiops cappuccino Gill, Bogorodsky & Mal 2013

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Gill et al. 2013).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Calloplesiops altivelis (Steindachner 1903)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (McCosker 1978), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (McCosker 1978), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève 1956, as Calloplesiops abulati). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Line Islands and Tuamoto Archipelago.

Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Sudan (Debelius 2007), Eritrea (Rüppell 1835).

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

Plesiops mystaxus Mooi 1995

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Mooi 1995).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Mooi 1995), Eritrea (Mooi 1995).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocan: Oman, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius.

Plesiops nigricans (Rüppell 1828)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Fishelson 1995), Jordan (Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Mooi 1995), Eritrea (Klunzinger 1884), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1828, as Pharyopteryx nigricans).

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

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

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Günther
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Plesiopidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Plesiopidae Günther, 1861 sec. Golani & Fricke, 2018

References

  • Gill, A. C., Bogorodsky, S. V. & Mal, A. O. (2013) Acanthoplesiops cappuccino, a new species of acanthoclinine fish from the Red Sea (Teleostei: Plesiopidae). Zootaxa, 3750 (3), 216 - 222. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3750.3.2
  • McCosker, J. E. (1978) Synonymy and distribution of Calloplesiops (Pisces: Plesiopidae). Copeia, 1978 (4), 707 - 710. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1443702
  • Khalaf, M. A &. Disi, A. M. (1997) Fishes of the Gulf of Aqaba. Publications of the Marine Science Station, Aqaba, 8, 1 - 252.
  • Roux-Esteve, R. (1956) Resultats scientifiques des campagnes de la Calypso. 10. Poissons. Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique Monaco, New Series, 32 (22), 61 - 115.
  • Ruppell, W. P. E. S. (1835 - 1838) Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehorig. Fische des Rothen Meeres. Siegmund Schmerber, Frankfurt am Main, ii + 148 pp., 33 pls. [1835: pp. 1 - 28, pls. 1 - 7; 1836: pp. 29 - 52, pls. 8 - 14; 1837: pp. 53 - 80, pls. 15 - 21; 1838: pp. 81 - 148, pls. 22 - 33]
  • Klunzinger, C. B. (1871) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. II. Theil. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 21, 441 - 688.
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  • Mooi, R. D. (1995) Revision, phylogeny, and discussion of biology and biogeography of the fish genus Plesiops (Perciformes: Plesiopidae). Royal Ontario Museum Life Science Contributions, 159, i-iv + 1 - 107. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 53482
  • 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.
  • Khalaf, M. A (2004) Fish fauna of the Jordanian coast, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. JKAU Marine Science, 15, 23 - 50. https: // doi. org / 10.4197 / mar. 15 - 1.2
  • 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.