POMACANTHIDAE

Apolemichthys xanthotis (Fraser-Brunner 1950)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Klausewitz 1983a), Israel (Katzir & Schechtman 1986), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

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

Centropyge multispinis (Playfair 1867)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981, as Centropyge multispinnis).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Holacanthus vrolikii; Abu El-Regal 2017, as Centrepyge multispinis), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Holacanthus vroliki), Eritrea (Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Centropyge vroliki; Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Thailand and western Sumatra (Indonesia).

Genicanthus caudovittatus (Günther 1860)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Dor 1970, as Genicanthus melanospilus caudovittatus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Holacanthus melanospilus).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Sumatra and Bali (western Indonesia).

Pomacanthus asfur (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Holacanthus asfur).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Euxiphipops asfur).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Holacanthus asfur), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Holacanthus asfur), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831, as Holacanthus caeruleus; Picaglia 1895, as Holacanthus asfur), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon asfur; see Fricke 2008).

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

Pomacanthus imperator (Bloch 1787)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Holacanthus imperator), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Holacanthus imperator; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani et al. 2010).

Pomacanthus maculosus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Klausewitz 1969c).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Holacanthus maculosus), Sudan (Klausewitz 1969c), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831, as Holacanthus mokhella and H. haddaja; Rüppell 1830, as Holacanthus lineatus and H. striatus; Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a, as Pomacanthops filamentosus; Clark et al. 1968), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Holacanthus lineatus; Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon maculosus and C. asfur caerulescens; see Fricke 2008).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean Sea (see Bariche 2010; Salameh et al 2012).

Pygoplites flavescens (Bennett 1831)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Holacanthus diacanthus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Holacanthus diacanthus), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Holacanthus diacanthus; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Holacanthus dux; Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Pigoplites diacanthus).

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

Remark: Accepted as a valid subspecies of P. diacanthus by Coleman et al. (2016); in the present paper raised to species level.