SILLAGINIDAE

Sillago sihama (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier in Valenciennes 1829a, as S. erythraea, part; Picaglia 1895; Golani et al. 2011b), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Atherina sihama; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Solomon Islands.

* Sillago suezensis Golani, Fricke & Tikochinski 2013

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829a, as S. erythraea, part; McKay & McCarthy 1989, as Sillago sihama; Golani et al. 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Gulf of Suez endemic.

Remark. Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani et al. 2011b, as Sillago erythraea; Golani et al. 2013).