ANTENNARIIDAE

Antennarius commerson (Latreille 1804)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Chironectes caudimaculatus).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Danois 1971, as Uniantennatus caudimaculatus), Israel (Dor 1970, as Antennarius commersonii), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Antennarius commersoni).

Red Sea main basin: -

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

Antennarius maculatus (Desjardins 1840)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯.

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010).

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

Antennarius pictus (Shaw 1794)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Danois 1971, as Antennarius chironectes), Israel (Danois 1971, as Antennarius chironectes; Pietsch & Grobecker 1987).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010).

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

Antennarius striatus (Shaw 1794)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987), Israel (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific.

Antennatus coccineus (Lesson 1831)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Danois 1971, as Antennarius coccineus and A. immaculatus), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Antennarius aff. coccineus; Danois 1971, as Antennarius coccineus and A. immaculatus), Jordan (Khalaf 2004, as Antennarius coccineus).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Antennarius coccineus), Eritrea (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius coccineus).

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

Antennatus nummifer (Cuvier 1817)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius nummifer).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Antennarius cf. nummifer; Pietsch & Grobecker 1987).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Chironectes nummifer); Yemen (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius nummifer).

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

Antennatus rosaceus Smith & Radcliffe 1912

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius rosaceus).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Pacific: Ryukyu Islands, Philippines and Papua New Guinea east to Marshall and Samoan islands.

Histrio histrio (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Antennarius marmoratus), Sudan (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987), Eritrea (Borsieri 1904, as Antennarius marmoratus; Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in most of the eastern Pacific.