EPHIPPIDAE

Platax boersii Bleeker 1853

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Lieske & Myers 2010 as Platax boersi).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau, waifs reaching Hawaiian Islands.

Platax orbicularis (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Platax vespertilio), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Platax albipunctatus), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon orbicularis; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Platax teira (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Botros 1971), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Platax pinnatus), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1829), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon teira; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Northern Marianas, Solomon and Loyalty islands.

Remark: Two specimens were recorded from the eastern Mediterranean Sea (see Bilecenoglu and Kaya 2006; Golani et al 2011c).

Tripterodon orbis Playfair in Playfair & Günther 1867