BELONIDAE

Ablennes hians (Valenciennes 1846)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone melanostigma), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Belone schismatorhynchus), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846, as Belone melanostigma), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Platybelone platura (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone platura), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Belone platura). General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.

Tylosurus choram (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Belone choram).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Belone choram).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone choram), Yemen (Botros 1971, as Belone choram), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Belone choram), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998). General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).

Tylosurus crocodilus (Péron & Lesueur 1821)

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

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Strongylura crocodila).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone koseirensis), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846, as Belone crocodilus).

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

Tylosurus melanotus (Bleeker 1850)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone appendiculatus).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Revillagigedo, Clipperton and Cocos islands (eastern Pacific).