KYPHOSIDAE

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 : 106-107

KYPHOSIDAE

Kyphosus bigibbus Lacepède 1801

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1836, as Pimelepterus fuscus ; El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Martens 1867, as Pimelepterus fuscus ), Sudan ( Fowler 1931), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Atlantic Ocean; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Indonesia and northern New Zealand.

Kyphosus cinerascens (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( El-Ganainy et al 2005).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1870, as Pimelepterus tahmel ), Sudan ( Fowler 1931), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Pimelepterus tahmel ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Pimelepterus tahmel ).

General distribution: South Atlantic; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Line islands and Easter Island .

Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Giamard 1825)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Pimelepterus waigiensis ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Pimelepterus marciac ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian, Line and Marquesas islands.