RACHYCENTRIDAE

Rachycentron canadum (Linnaeus 1766)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937, as Elacate nigra).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1955, as Rachycentron canadus), Jordan (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Rachycentron canadus).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Elacate nigra), Eritrea (Rüppell 1836, as Elacate pondiceriana), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1986).