OSTRACIIDAE

Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus 1758)

Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Ostracion cornutus), Yemen (Clark & Gohar 1953).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Ogasawara Islands, Marquesas and Tuamotu islands.

Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Rüppell 1828), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Ostracion tuberculatus), Eritrea (Guichenot 1847), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967, as Ostracion tuberculatus), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Tuamotu Archipelago .

Remark: Two specimens were recorded from the eastern Medierranean Sea (Bariche 2011).

Ostracion cyanurus Rüppell 1828

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Tortonese 1968), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Sudan (Clark & Gohar 1953), Eritrea (Sanzo 1930), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1828).

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

Tetrosomus gibbosus (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937, as Ostracion turritus; El-Ganainy et al 2005, as Tetrasomus gibbosus).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Rhineosoma gibbosus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Ostracion turritus), Sudan (Sanzo 1930, as Ostracion turritus), Eritrea (Rüppell 1828, as Ostracion turritus; Tortonese 1956, as Rhinesomus gibbosus), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Ostracion turritus; see Fricke 2008).

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

Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Spanier & Goren 1988).