CHANIDAE

Chanos chanos (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Jordan (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Mugil chanos; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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