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Opistognathidae Bonaparte 1835
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OPISTOGNATHIDAE
* Opistognathus dipharus Smith-Vaniz 2010
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: ¯
Red Sea main basin: Ethiopia (Dor 1970, as Opisthognahus muscatensis; Smith-Vaniz 2010).
General distribution: Red Sea endemic.
Opistognathus nigromarginatus Rüppell 1830
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: ¯
Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1830).
General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Thailand and Vietnam.
* Stalix davidsheni Klausewitz 1985
Gulf of Suez: ¯
Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Smith-Vaniz 1974, as Stalix histrio; Klausewitz 1985b).
Red Sea main basin: ¯
General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.
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 133-134, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bonaparte
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Opistognathidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Opistognathidae Bonaparte, 1835 sec. Golani & Fricke, 2018
References
- Smith-Vaniz, W. F. (2010) New species of Indo-Pacific jawfishes (Opisthognathus: Opistognathidae) from the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Smithiana, Publications in Aquatic Biodiversity Bulletin, 12, 39 - 54.
- Dor, M. (1970) Contributions to the knowledge of the Red Sea. No. 44. Nouveaux poissons pour la faune de la mer Rouge. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, Haifa, 54, 7 - 28.
- Smith-Vaniz, W. F. (1974) A review of the jawfish genus Stalix (Opistognathidae). Copeia, 1974 (1), 280 - 283. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1443045
- Klausewitz, W. (1985 b) Fische aus dem Roten Meer. XVII. A new species of the genus Stalix from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea (Pisces: Teleostei: Perciformes: Opistognathidae). Revue francaise d'Aquariologie Herpetologie, 12 (1), 17 - 22.