PLESIOPIDAE, Günther, 1861

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 : 69

PLESIOPIDAE

* Acanthoplesiops cappuccino Gill, Bogorodsky & Mal 2013

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia ( Gill et al. 2013).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Calloplesiops altivelis (Steindachner 1903)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( McCosker 1978), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( McCosker 1978), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève 1956, as Calloplesiops abulati ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Line Islands and Tuamoto Archipelago.

Plesiops coeruleolineatus Rüppell 1835

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Sudan ( Debelius 2007), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1835).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga.

Plesiops mystaxus Mooi 1995

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Mooi 1995).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Mooi 1995), Eritrea ( Mooi 1995).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocan: Oman, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius.

Plesiops nigricans (Rüppell 1828)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952), Israel (Fishelson 1995), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Mooi 1995), Eritrea ( Klunzinger 1884), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1828, as Pharyopteryx nigricans ).

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