DIODONTIDAE

Cyclichthys orbicularis (Bloch 1785)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Cyclichthys orbicularis).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Kotthaus 1979, as Chilomycterus orbicularis), Yemen (Kotthaus 1979, as Chilomycterus orbicularis).

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

Cyclichthys spilostylus (Leis & Randall 1982)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Leis & Randall 1982), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Cyclichthys echinatus; Leis & Randall 1982), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Philippines and New Caledonia; Galápagos Archipelago.

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1993, as Chilomycterus spilostylus).

Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Diodon holacanthus); Kotthaus 1979, as Diodon paraholocanthus).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Diodon hystrix Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983). General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Diodon liturosus Shaw 1804

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Bogorodsky et al. 2011a). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Bogorodsky et al. 2011a).

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