MULLIDAE

Mulloidichthys flavicaudus Fernandez-Silva & Randall 2016

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Mullus flavolineatus).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Mulloides flavolineatus), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Mulloidichthys auriflamma; Golani & Lerner 2007, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Mullus flavolineatus; Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus), Sudan (Edwards & Rosewell 1981, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus; Fernandez-Silva & Randall in Fernandez-Silva et al. 2016, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus flavicaudus), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829a, as Upeneus flavolineatus), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Upeneus flavolineatus), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Mulloidichthys flavolineatus).

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

Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes 1831)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Mulloides vanicolensis), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Mulloides vanicolensis), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Mulloides ruber).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Line islands and Pitcairn Group.

Parupeneus cyclostomus (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Upeneus cyclostoma; Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937, as Upeneoides luteus).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Diamant & Shpigel 1985, as Parupeneus cyclostoma), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Pseudupeneus cyclostomus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Upeneus cyclostoma), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Parupeneus chryserythrus; Edwards & Rosewell, as Parupeneus chryserydros), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Upeneus cyclostoma).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Line islands and Pitcairn Group.

Parupeneus forsskali (Fourmanoir & Guèzè 1976)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Upeneus barberinus; Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Paperna 1972b, as Pseudupeneus barberinus; Randall 2004), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Pseudupeneus barberinus; Golani & Lerner 2007), Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Mullus barberinus; Randall 2004), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Upeneus barberinus; Randall 2004), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Upeneus barberinus; Randall 2004), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Mullus auriflamma; see Fricke 2008; Fourmanoir & Guézé 1976).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean Sea (see Bariche et al 2013; Sonin et al 2013).

Parupeneus heptacanthus (Lacepède 1802)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Randall 2004).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Parupeneus pleurospilos; Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Upeneus pleurospilos; Bogorodsky et al. 2011a), Eritrea (Randall 2004), Saudi Arabia (Randall 2004).

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

Parupeneus macronemus (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952, as Parupeneus macronema), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Parupeneus macronema), Jordan (Marshall 1952, as Parupeneus macronema).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Upeneus macronemus), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Parupeneus macronema; Randall 2004), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Upeneus lateristriga; Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Upeneus macronema), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Parupeneus macronema).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.

Parupeneus rubescens (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Randall & Guézé 1984).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Upeneus spilurus; Klunzinger 1884, as Parupeneus notospilus), Eritrea (Randall 2004).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Philippines.

* Upeneus davidaromi Golani 2001

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Upeneus subvittatus; Golani 2001), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Kissil 1988, as Upeneus subvittatus; Golani 2001), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Upeneus subvitatus; Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.

Remark: Previous Red Sea records of Upeneus subvittatus (non Temminck & Schlegel 1843) are based on this species.

Upeneus guttatus (Day 1868)

Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Uiblein & Heemstra 2010), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Philippines.

Upeneus heemstra Uiblein & Gouws 2014