Stephanolepis diaspros Fraser-Brunner, 1940

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 308-309

Stephanolepis diaspros Fraser-Brunner, 1940

Occurrence: questionable

Maximum length: 25 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: demersal

Depth range: 20-50 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2019) Source: bibliography, observation

Distribution and remarks: western Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and immigrated via the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea. Collected by the Nansen campaign of 2014 ( Michalsen et al., 2015) (De Bruyne, pers. com.) but must be verified according to the known distribution of the species.