PLOTOSIDAE

Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg 1787)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1837, as Plotosus anguillaris; El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: New record, based on SMNHTAU 15925, 15926 and 15927 (identify by M. Goren and A. Diamant).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Plotosus anguillaris), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Plotosus anguillaris), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Silurus arab; see Fricke 2008).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 2002).