PEMPHERIDAE, 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 : 105-106

PEMPHERIDAE

* Parapriacanthus guentheri ( Klunzinger 1871)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Lieske & Myers 2010 as Parapriacanthus ransonneti ), ( Randall & Bogorodsky 2016), Jordan ( Froukh 2001, as Parapriacanthus ransonnari ) ( Khalaf 2004, as Parapriacanthus ransonneti ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Pempherichthys güntheri ), Saudi Arabia ( Randall & Bogorodsky 2016).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

* Parapriacanthus sharm Randall & Bogorodsky 2016

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Randall & Bogorodsky 2016).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Pempheris erythraea Kossmann & Räuber 1877

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Koeda et al. 2014, as Pempheris mangula ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Randall et al. 2014a, as Pempheris flavicycla marisrubri ), Israel ( Koeda et al. 2014, as Pempheris adusta ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Pempheris mangula ; Kossmann & Räuber 1877; Randall et al. 2014a, as Pempheris flavicycla marisrubri ), Sudan ( Koeda et al. 2014, as Pempheris adusta ), Eritrea ( Koeda et al. 2014, as Pempheris adusta ), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Pempheris mangula ; Randall et al. 2014, as Pempheris flavicycla marisrubri ).

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

* Pempheris orbis Randall & Victor 2015

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Randall & Victor 2015).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Randall & Victor 2015).

General distribution: Northern Red Sea endemic.

* Pempheris rhomboidea Kossmann & Räuber 1877

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Randall et al. 2014b)

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Randall et al. 2014b).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea ( Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Pempheris rhomboideus ; Randall et al. 2014b). General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Remark. Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Randall et al. 2014b).

Pempheris schwenkii Bleeker 1855

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Randall & Bineesh 2014), Saudi Arabia ( Randall & Bineesh 2014).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Tonga.

* Pempheris sergey Randall & Victor 2015

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Randall & Victor 2015).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

* Pempheris shirleen Randall & Victor 2015

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Randall & Victor 2015).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

* Pempheris tau Randall & Victor 2015

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Randall & Victor 2015).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Randall & Victor 2015).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

* Pempheris tilman Randall & Victor 2015

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Randall & Victor 2015).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.

* Pempheris tiran Randall & Victor 2015

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Saudi Arabia ( Randall & Victor 2015).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Northern Red Sea endemic.

Pempheris tominagai Koeda, Yoshino & Tachihara 2014

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Koeda et al. 2014).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Koeda et al. 2014), Saudi Arabia ( Randall et al. 2014b).

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

* Pempheris viridis Randall & Victor 2015

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Randall & Victor 2015).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.