Priacanthidae Günther 1859
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Priacanthus blochii Bleeker 1853
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: ¯
Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Randall 1994c).
General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden and Seychelles east to Philippines and Samoa.
Priacanthus hamrur (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981), Debelius 2007, as Heteropriacanthus cruentatus).
Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Sudan (Krupp 1990), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena hamrur; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena hamrur; see Fricke 2008).
General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marquesas and Gambier islands.
Remark: Two specimens were recorded in the Mediterranean (Erguden et al. in press).
Rriacanthus prolixus Starnes, 1988
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: ¯
Red Sea main basin: ¯
General distribution: Northwestern Indian Ocean: Somalia east to Pakistan.
Remark: This species has not been recorded from the Red Sea but was recorded from the Mediterranean (Gürlek et al. 2017). Since its northwestern Indian Ocean distribution it is evidently occurring in the Red Sea.
Priacanthus sagittarius Starnes 1988
Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf 2004).
Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).
General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Réunion east to southern Japan, Philippines and Samoa. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean (see Golani et al. 2011c).
Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862)
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia in Dor 1984, as Pristigenys niphonia), Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993, as Pristigenys niphonia; Iwatsuki et al. 2012), Jordan (Khalaf 2004, as Pristigenys niphonia).
Red Sea main basin: southern Red Sea (Iwatsuki et al. 2012)
General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Indonesia and southern Japan.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Günther
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Priacanthidae
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- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Priacanthidae Günther, 1859 sec. Golani & Fricke, 2018
References
- Randall, J. E. (1994 c) Twenty-two new records of fishes from the Red Sea. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 14, 259 - 275.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bouchon, C., Jaubert, J. & Bouchon-Navaro, Y. (1981) Evolution of a semi-artificial reef built by transplanting coral heads. Tethys, 10 (2), 173 - 176.
- Debelius, H. (2007) Red Sea reef guide. Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Arabian Peninsula. Richmond, Surrey, Circle, 1 - 321.
- 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.
- Krupp, F. (1990) Sanganeb - ein Unterwasser-Nationalpark im Roten Meer. Natur und Museum, 120 (12), 405 - 409.
- 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.
- Gurlek, M., Erguden, D & Turan, C. (2017) First record of Elongate Bulleye Priacanthus proxlixus in the Mediterranean Sea. Natural and Engineering Sciences, 2 (1), 44 - 47. https: // doi. org / 10.28978 / nesciences. 292356
- Haroun, E. S., Akel, K. & Karachle, P. K. (2017) The marine ichthyofauna of Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, 21 (3), 81 - 116. https: // doi. org / 10.21608 / ejabf. 2017.4130
- Baranes, A. & Golani, D. (1993) An annotated list of deep-sea fishes collected in the northern Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba. Israel Journal of Zoology, 39, 299 - 336.
- 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
- Bogorodsky, S. V., Alpermann, T. J., Mal, A. O. & Gabr, M. H. (2014 b) Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea. Zootaxa, 3852 (4), 401 - 437. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3852.4.1
- Golani, D., Sonin, O. & Edelist, D. (2011 c) Second records of the Lessepsian fish migrants Priacanthus sagittarius and Platax teira in the Mediterranean and distribution extension of Tylerius spinosissimus. Aquatic Invasions, 6 (Supplement 1), 7 - 11. [S 7 - S 11] https: // doi. org / 10.3391 / ai. 2011.6. S 1.002
- Dor, M. (1984) Checklist of the fishes of the Red Sea. CLOFRES. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, xxii + 437 pp., map.
- Iwatsuki, Y., Matsuda, T., Starnes, W. C., Nakabo, T. & Yoshino, T. (2012) A valid priacanthid species, Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862), and a redescription of P. niphonia (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829) in the Indo-West Pacific (Perciformes: Priacanthidae). Zootaxa, 3206, 41 - 57.