FISTULARIIDAE

Fistularia commersonii Rüppell 1838

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Diamant & Shpigel 1985, as Fistularia commersoni), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Atiya, 1991, Lieske & Myers 2010), Sudan (Debelius 2007).

General distribution: Southeastern Atlantic: Ascension Island; Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean (see Golani, 2000).

Fistularia petimba Lacepède 1803

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952, as Fistularia villosa), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Fistularia petimba), Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Fistularia serrata and F. villosa), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Fistularia serrata), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Fistularia villosa), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (Stern et al. 2017).