ATHERINIDAE

* Atherinomorus forskalii (Rüppell 1838)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Atherina pectoralis; Kimura et al. 2007).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Alanetta forskali; Bucciarelli et al. 2002, as Atherinomorus lacunosus; Kimura et al. 2007), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Atherinomorus lacunosus).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Atherina Forskalii; Abu El-Regal et al. 2014), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Atherina pinguis), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Atherina pectoralis; Giglioli 1889, as Atherina Forskalii), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Atherina hepsetus; see Fricke 2008; Kimura et al. 2007).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Norman 1927, as Atherina pinguis; Kimura et al. 2007).

Atherinomorus lacunosus (Forster in Bloch & Schneider 1801)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Atherina pinguis; Abu El-Regal et al. 2014), Eritrea (Botros 1971, as Atherina pinguis; Bucciarelli et al. 2002), Saudi Arabia (Smith 1965a, as Pranesus pinguis ruppelli; Gladstone 2002; Kimura et al. 2007).

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

* Hypoatherina gobio (Klunzinger 1884)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Smith 1965a, as Allanetta afra; Golani & Lerner 2007, as Hypoatherina temminckii).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Atherina cylindrica; Klunzinger 1884, as Atherina gobio; Sasaki & Kimura 2014), Eritrea (Sasaki & Kimura 2014), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Atherina afra).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

* Hypoatherina golanii Sasaki & Kimura 2012

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Sasaki & Kimura 2012), Israel (Sasaki & Kimura 2012).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

Remark: Previous records of Hypoatherina barnesi (non Schultz 1953) are based on this species (see Sasaki & Kimura 2012).

General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.