ISTIOPHORIDAE

Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw 1792)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Histiophorus gladius), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Histiophorus immaculatus).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.