SPHYRAENIDAE

Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards 1771)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Sphyraena agam; Abu El-Regal et al. 2014), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Sphyraena affinis; Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific (waifs reaching Galápagos Archipelago).

Sphyraena flavicauda Rüppell 1838

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Israel (Golani & Lerner 2007), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838; Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005, as Sphyraena obtusata), Sudan (Debelius 2007), (Lieske & Myers 2010),.

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).

Sphyraena forsteri Cuvier 1829

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Society and Marquesas islands.

Sphyraena iburiensis Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Doiuchi et al. 2011).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Pacific: Japan.

Sphyraena jello Cuvier 1829

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Sudan (Botros 1971), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Sphyraena obtusata Cuvier 1829

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1934).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Eritrea (Botros 1971).

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

Sphyraena pinguis Günther 1874: 157

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani & Lerner 2007, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: South Africa and Persian Gulf east to Australia and Japan.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia).

Sphyraena putnamae Jordan & Seale 1905

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Sphyraena putnamiae).

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Fiji and Tuvalu.

Sphyraena qenie Klunzinger 1870

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Sudan (Debelius 2007), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968).

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