SIGANIDAE

Siganus argenteus (Quoy & Gaimard 1825)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Siganus rostratus; Woodland 1990), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Amphacanthus rostratus); Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Amphacanthus rostratus).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Wake Atoll and Pitcairn.

Siganus luridus (Rüppell 1829)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1829, as Amphacanthus luridus).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Woodland 1990), Israel (Ben-Tuvia 1964; Paperna 1972a), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Rüppell 1871, as Amphacanthus luridus), Sudan (Fowler 1931), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Amphacanthus luridus), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf to Comores, Madagascar and western Mascarenes.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966; Woodland 1990).

Siganus rivulatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1829, as Amphacanthus siganus; Tortonese 1948).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952, as Teuthis rivulatus), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), (Kimmerling et al. 2017, as Siganus sutor), Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Amphacanthus sigan.), Sudan (Bamber 1915), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Amphacanthus siganus), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scarus rivulatus and Scarus sidjan; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa to Persian Gulf.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966; Woodland 1990).

Siganus stellatus (Forsskål 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Eritrea (Botros 1971, as Teuthis stellata).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Paperna 1972a), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Amphacanthus stellatus), Sudan (Bamber 1915), Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Amphacanthus stellatus), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scarus stellatus; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Indonesia.