SPHYRNIDAE

Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith 1834)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Sphyrna zygaena; Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Sphyrna diplana).

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Sphyrna diplana), Eritrea (Klunzinger 1871, as Zygaena erythraea; Gilbert 1967), Saudi Arabia (Spaet et al. 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Baranes 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Israel (Ben-Tuvia 1968).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Zygaena mokarran), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.