AETOBATIDAE

Aetobatus ocellatus (Kuhl 1823)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Aetobatus narinari).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Aetobatis narinari), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Aetobatis narinari), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Myliobatis eeltenkee), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja mula, R. tajara; see Fricke 2008; Spaet & Berumen 2015); Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Raja tajara; see Fricke 2008).

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

Remark: Records of Aetobatus narinari (non Euphrasen 1790) are based on this species (see White & Last 2016b).