MONODACTYLIDAE

Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (new record, based on HUJ 10622, identified by M. Dor).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Psettus argenteus), Sudan (Borodin 1930, as Psettus falciformis), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831, as Psettus rhombeus), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber rhombeus; see Fricke 2008).

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