MORONIDAE

Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Steindachner 1895, as Labrax lupus; Gruvel 1936, as Morone labrax).

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

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: Norway and Iceland to Senegal.

Remark: Originally in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; introduced in the Red Sea.

Dicentrarchus punctatus (Bloch 1792)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Steindachner 1895, as Labrax orientalis; Ben-Tuvia 1971).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia, 1971).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic: English Channel to Senegal.

Remark: Anti-Lessepsian migrant from eastern Mediterranean into Red Sea (see Ben-Tuvia 1971).