CARCHARHINIDAE

Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Rüppell 1837, as Carcharias albimarginatus), Sudan (Ninni 1931), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).

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

Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978a), Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993).

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Carcharhinus amboinensis (Müller & Henle 1839)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).

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

Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle 1839)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Aprionodon brevipinna).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Aprionodon brevipinna and Carcharhinus maculipinnis), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).

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

Remark: Not a Lessepsian migrant as previously reported by Ben-Tuvia (1966) (see Golani et al. 2002).

Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle 1839)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Carcharhinus menisorrah), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1959a, as Carcharhinus menisorrah; Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas.

Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller & Henle 1839)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Baranes 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias ehrenbergi), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956), Saudi Arabia (Spaet et al. 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey 1861)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard 1824)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Carcharias melanopterus).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias melanopterus), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Carcharias melanopterus), Eritrea (Pellegrin 1912, as Carcharias melanopterus), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Squalus carcharhias minor; see Fricke 2008; Gladstone 2002).

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

Remark: Not a Lessepsian migrant as previously reported by Steinitz (1967) (see Golani et al. 2002).

Carcharhinus obscurus (LeSueur 1818)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Baranes 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).

General distribution: Nearly circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo 1827)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978b), Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978b; Baranes & Wendling 1981), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, possibly absent from eastern Pacific.

Carcharhinus sorrah (Müller & Henle 1839)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Baranes, 2013), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Lamna spallanzanii; Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Carcharias bleekeri), Saudi Arabia (Spaet et al. 2015).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Solomon Islands and northern Vanuatu.

Carcharhinus wheeleri Garrick 1982

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007, as Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), Sudan (Krupp 1990, as Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), Eritrea (Garrick 1982), Saudi Arabia (Garrick 1982; Spaet & Berumen 2015, as Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa to Maldives and Chagos Archipelago.

Remark: This species is probably distrinct from C. amblyrhynchos (see Naylor et al. 2012); previous Red Sea records of Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (non Bleeker 1856) are probably based on this species.

Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur 1822)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Tortonese 1968, as Galeocerdo cuvieri), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Galeocerdo cuvieri).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Galeocerdo obtusus; Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Loxodon macrorhinus Müller & Henle 1839

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Baranes, 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes, 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to New Guinea.

Negaprion acutidens (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Carcharias munzingeri; Baranes 2013).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Carcharias acutidens).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias acutidens), Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Carcharias acutidens), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Squalus carcharhias gersch; see Fricke 2008; Spaet & Berumen 2015); Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Squalus carcharhias gersch; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Society Islands.

Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Klunzinger 1877, as Carcharias acutus).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias acutus), Eritrea (Springer 1964), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1837, as Carcharias acutus).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Scoliodon laticaudus Müller &Henle 1838

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Scoliodon palasorrah).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Scoliodon palasorrah).

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

Triaenodon obesus (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes 1973, 2013).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1837, as Carcharias obesus).

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