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Pomacentridae

Description

POMACENTRIDAE

Abudefduf sexfasciatus (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Allen & Randall 1981), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Goren & Spanier 1985), Eritrea (Borsieri 1904, as Glyphidodon coelestinus; Tortonese 1935, as Glyphisodon sexfasciatus), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marquesas and Gambier islands.

Remark: A single specimen was photographed in Greece, Mediterranean Sea, probably an aquarium release (see Giovos et al., in press).

Abudefduf sordidus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830, as Glyphisodon sordidus).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Allen & Randall 1981), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Abudefduf sordidus), Jordan (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Abudefduf sordidus).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Glyphidodon sordidus), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon sordidus; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands, Wake Atoll and Pitcairn Group.

Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1825)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937, as Glyphisodon saxatilis).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Allen & Randall 1981), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Abudefduf saxatilis), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Glyphidodon saxatilis), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Glyphidodon sexatilis), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Glyphidodon saxatilis), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1829, as Glyphisodon saxatilis; Allen & Randall 1981).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean Sea (see Goren and Galil 1998).

Amblyglyphidodon flavilatus Allen & Randall 1981

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Allen & Randall 1981), Israel (Allen & Randall 1981), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Goren & Spanier 1985), Sudan (Allen & Randall 1981), Eritrea (Allen & Randall 1981).

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

Amblyglyphidodon indicus Allen & Randall 2002

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Allen & Randall 1981, as Amblyglyphidodon leucogaster; Allen & Randall 2002), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Abudefduf leucogaster), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Amblyglyphidodon leucogaster).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Glyphidodon leucogaster), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Glyphidodon leucogaster), Eritrea (Baschieri-Salvadori 1955, as Abudefduf leucogaster), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Abudefduf leucogaster; Allen & Randall 2002).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Sumatra.

Amphiprion bicinctus Rüppell 1830

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1830).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Sudan (Krupp 1990), Eritrea (Rüppell 1830), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Chagos Archipelago.

* Chromis dimidiata (Klunzinger 1871)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Randall & DiBattista 2013), Israel (Allen & Randall 1981), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Heliastes dimidiatus), Sudan (Edwards & Rosewell 1981; Randall & DiBattista 2013), Eritrea (Baschieri-Salvadori 1955, as Chromis dimidiatus), Saudi Arabia (Roux- Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Chromis dimidiatus).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Remark: Previous Western Indian Ocean records of Chromis dimidiata (non Klunzinger 1871) are based on Chromis fieldi Randall & DiBattista 2013 (see Randall & DiBattista 2013).

Chromis flavaxilla Randall 1994

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 pages 112-113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Pomacentridae
Taxon rank
family

References

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