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Rachycentridae Gill 1896
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RACHYCENTRIDAE
Rachycentron canadum (Linnaeus 1766)
Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937, as Elacate nigra).
Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1955, as Rachycentron canadus), Jordan (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Rachycentron canadus).
Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Elacate nigra), Eritrea (Rüppell 1836, as Elacate pondiceriana), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).
General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1986).
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 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566
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- Gill
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Rachycentridae
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- family
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- Rachycentridae Gill, 1896 sec. Golani & Fricke, 2018
References
- Gruvel, A. & Chabanaud, P. (1937) Missions A. Gruvel dans le canal de Suez. II. Poissons. Memoires de l'Institut d'Egypte, New Series, 35, 1 - 30.
- Steinitz, H. & Ben-Tuvia, A. (1955) Fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Aqaba), Red Sea. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 11, 1 - 15.
- Klunzinger, C. B. (1871) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. II. Theil. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 21, 441 - 688.
- Tortonese, E. (1983) List of fishes observed near Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Journal of the Faculty of Marine Science, 3, 105 - 110.
- Golani, D. & Ben-Tuvia, A. (1986) New records of fishes from the Mediterranean coast of Israel including Red Sea immigrants. Cybium, 10 (3), 285 - 291.