EPHIPPIDAE, Bleeker, 1859

Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2018, Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants, Zootaxa 4509 (1), pp. 1-215 : 107

EPHIPPIDAE

Platax boersii Bleeker 1853

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Lieske & Myers 2010 as Platax boersi ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau, waifs reaching Hawaiian Islands.

Platax orbicularis (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Platax vespertilio ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Platax vespertilio ), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1829, as Platax albipunctatus ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon orbicularis ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

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

Platax teira (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Botros 1971), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Platax pinnatus ), Saudi Arabia ( Rüppell 1829), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon teira ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Northern Marianas , Solomon and Loyalty islands.

Remark: Two specimens were recorded from the eastern Mediterranean Sea (see Bilecenoglu and Kaya 2006; Golani et al 2011c).

Tripterodon orbis Playfair in Playfair & Günther 1867