ENGRAULIDAE

Encrasicholina gloria Hata & Motomura 2016

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Whitehad 1965, as Stolephorus buccaneeri; El-Ganainy et al 2005, as Stolephorus punetifer; Hata & Motomura 2016).

Gulf of Aqaba:

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Hata & Motomura 2016).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf.

Remarks: Red Sea records of Encrasicholina punctifer (non Fowler 1938) are based on this species (see Hata & Motomura 2016). Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Hata & Motomura 2016).

Encrasicholina heteroloba (Rüppell 1837)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Engraulis heterolobus).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Engraulis heteroloba), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Engraulis heteroloba), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline Islands, Samoa and Tonga. Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Azov Sea, eastern Atlantic: Norway to South Africa including Madeira and Canary Islands; southwestern Indian Ocean.

Remark: Anti-Lessepsian migrant from eastern Mediterranean into Red Sea (see Whitehead 1965).

Stolephorus indicus (van Hasselt 1823)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Whitehead 1965), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Whitehead 1965).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline, Mariana and Society islands. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean (see Fricke et al. 2015a).

Stolephorus insularis Hardenberg 1933

Gulf of Suez: Probably present, but not recorded.

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Probably present, but not recorded.

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to western Indonesia and South China Sea. Remark: This Indo-West Pacific species was recorded as a Lessepsian migrant from the southeastern Mediterranean by Fricke et al. (2012); it evidently arrived from the Gulf of Suez.

Thryssa baelama (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: New record , based on specimens HUJ 20178, 20180 and 20181 (identified by D. Golani).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Engraulis boelama), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Engraulis boelama), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1848, as Engraulis boelama), Saudi Arabia (Whitehead 1965), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Thryssa setirostris).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline and Mariana islands, Samoa and Tonga.