MONACANTHIDAE

Aluterus monoceros Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Sanzo 1930, as Aluteres monoceros).

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Alutera monoceros), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Remark: Two specimens were recorded in the western Mediterranean Sea, probably entered via Gibraltar (Guallart and Vicent 2009).

Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck 1765)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Monacanthus scriptus), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956, as Alutera scripta), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983, as Alutera scripta).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Amanses scopas (Cuvier 1829)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Tortonese 1956), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Thamnaconus penicularius).

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

* Brachaluteres fahaqa Clark & Gohar 1953

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Brachaluteres baueri fahaqa).

General distribution: Northern Red Sea endemic.

Cantherhines pardalis (Rüppell 1830)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1837, as Monacanthus pardalis).

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Monacanthus pardalis), Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Monacanthus pardalis).

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

* Oxymonacanthus halli Marshall 1952

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Debelius 2007), (Lieske & Myers 2010), Israel (Fishelson 1995).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Sudan (Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Oxymonacanthus longirostris).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Paraluteres arqat Clark & Gohar 1953

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953).

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

Paramonacanthus nematophorus (Günther 1870)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Klausewitz 1983a, as Paramonacanthus oblongus).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Fowler & Steinitz 1956, as Monacanthus cirrosus).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Paramonacanthus oblongus; Budker & Fourmanoir 1954, as Paramonacanthus barnardi), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Monacanthus cirrosus), Yemen (Kotthaus 1979, as Paramonacanthus sp.).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Seychelles.

Paramonacanthus pusillus (Rüppell 1829)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Paramonacanthus falcatus).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Monacanthus pusillus), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Monacanthus pusillus), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Kotthaus 1979, as Paramonacanthus falcatus). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and southern Japan.

Pervagor randalli Hutchins 1986

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Hutchins 1986), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Pervagor melanocephalus), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Monacanthus melanocephalus; Hutchins 1986).

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

Stephanolepis diaspros Fraser-Brunner 1940

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Monacanthus setifer; Sanzo 1930, as Stephanolepis hispidus; Fraser-Brunner 1940).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Stephanolepis cf. oblongus); Jordan (Fraser-Brunner 1940). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Stephanolepis ocheticus), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Monacanthus setifer), Yemen (Sanzo 1930, as Stephanolepis hispidus).

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

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

* Thamnaconus erythraeensis Bauchot & Maugé 1978

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Bauchot & Maugé 1978, as Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis), Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993, as Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis).

Red Sea main basin: -

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.