ECHENEIDAE, Rafinesque, 1810

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 : 81-82

ECHENEIDAE

Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus 1758

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877).

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

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as E. neucrates ; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as E. neucrates ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Remora brachyptera (Lowe 1839)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Echeneis brachyptera ).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

Remora remora (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Echeneis remora ).

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

Red Sea main basin: Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Echeneis remora ).

General distribution: Circumglobal.

Remorina albescens (Temminck & Schlegel 1850)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Dor 1970, as Echeneis albescens ).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.