LUTJANIDAE

Aphareus furca (Lacepède 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Marshall 1952).

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Debelius 2007), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Aphareus furcatus).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group.

Aphareus rutilans Cuvier 1830

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Marshall 1952).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Aprion virescens Valenciennes 1830

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba ¯

Red Sea main basin: Yemen (Debelius 2007).

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

Lutjanus argentimaculatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Mesoprion argentimaculatus).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope argentimaculata), Sudan (Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Ehrenberg in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope macrolepis; Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Diacope argentimaculata).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Society Islands. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).

Lutjanus bohar (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Allen & Talbot 1985), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope bohar), Sudan (Bamber 1915), Saudi Arabia (Roux- Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope quadriguttata), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Pitcairn Group.

Lutjanus coeruleolineatus (Rüppell 1838)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Mesoprion coeruleolineatus), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Diacope coeruleo-lineata), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Diacope coeruleo-lineata).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and Pakistan.

Lutjanus ehrenbergii (Peters 1869)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Mesoprion ehrenbergi), Sudan (Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967, as Lutianus ehrenbergi).

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

Lutjanus fulviflamma (Rüppell 1830)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Mesoprion fulviflamma).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Mesoprion fulviflamma), Sudan (Fowler 1931), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Diacope fulviflamma), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope fulviflamma).

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

Remark: A single specimen was recorded from the Mediterranean (see Vella et al 2015).

Lutjanus fulvus (Forster 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Allen & Talbot 1985).

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

Lutjanus gibbus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Mesoprion gibbus).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Lutjanus lineatus).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope gibba), Sudan (Bamber 1915), Eritrea (Pellegrin 1912), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1829, as Diacope coccinea; Rüppell 1838, as Diacope melanura; Roux-Estève 1956, as Lutianus gibbus), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Lutjanus indicus Allen, White & Erdmann 2013

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Allen & Talbot 1985 as L. russellii), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968 as L. russellii, Clark et al. 1968 as L. russellii).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Andaman Sea.

Lutjanus kasmira (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope kasmira), Sudan (Tortonese 1947a), Eritrea (Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Kotthaus 1974a).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Line Islands and Pitcairn Group.

Lutjanus lutjanus Bloch 1790

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Diacope lineolata), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

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

Lutjanus monostigma (Cuvier 1828)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope monostigma), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Mesoprion monostigma), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Pitcairn.

Lutjanus rivulatus (Cuvier 1828)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Diacope rivulata), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Lutjanus sanguineus (Cuvier 1828)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Diacope erythrina), Sudan (Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope sanguinea; Rüppell 1838, as Diacope erythrina), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Red Sea, Western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India.

Lutjanus sapphirolineatus Iwatsuki, Al-Mamry & Heemstra 2016

Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017, as Lutjanus bengalensis).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Giglioli 1889, as Genyoroge bengalensis, Allen & Talbot 1985, as Lutjanus bengalensis).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Somalia, Oman.

Remark: Previous Red Sea records of Lutjanus bengalensis (non Bloch 1790) are most probably based on this species (see Iwatsuki et al. 2016).

Lutjanus sebae (Cuvier 1816)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope sebae), Eritrea (Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Remark: Two specimens were recorded in the Mediterranean, probably aquarium escapees (Zenetos et al 2016; Deidum and Piraino, 2017).

Macolor niger (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope nigra), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena nigra; see Fricke 2008).

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

Paracaesio sordidus Abe & Shinohara 1962

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Paracaesio xanthurus), (Debelius 2007, as Paracaesio caeruleus, Abu El-Regal 2017).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: South Africa and Madagascar east to Marquesas and Pitcairn islands.

Pristipomoides filamentosus (Valenciennes 1830)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Zajonz 2007).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Centropristis filamentosus), Eritrea (Dor 1970, as Pristipomoides microlepis), Saudi Arabia (Trivedi et al. 2014).

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

Pristipomoides multidens (Day 1871)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes et al 2017), Jordan (Khalaf 2004, as Pristipomoides typus) .

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Centropristis pristipoma), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Pristipomoides argyrogrammicus), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002, as Pristipomoides typus), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Pristipomoides sieboldii (Bleeker 1854)

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

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Zajonz 2007).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Southeastern Atlantic: Vema Seamount; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Society islands.