ANTENNARIIDAE

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 : 37-38

ANTENNARIIDAE

Antennarius commerson (Latreille 1804)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Chironectes caudimaculatus ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Danois 1971, as Uniantennatus caudimaculatus ), Israel ( Dor 1970, as Antennarius commersonii ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Antennarius commersoni ).

Red Sea main basin: -

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.

Antennarius maculatus (Desjardins 1840)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯.

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Lieske & Myers 2010).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar and Mauritius east to Hawaiian and Society islands.

Antennarius pictus (Shaw 1794)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Danois 1971, as Antennarius chironectes ), Israel ( Danois 1971, as Antennarius chironectes ; Pietsch & Grobecker 1987).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Lieske & Myers 2010).

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

Antennarius striatus (Shaw 1794)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Pietsch & Grobecker 1987), Israel ( Pietsch & Grobecker 1987).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific.

Antennatus coccineus (Lesson 1831)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Danois 1971, as Antennarius coccineus and A. immaculatus ), Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Antennarius aff. coccineus ; Danois 1971, as Antennarius coccineus and A. immaculatus ), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004, as Antennarius coccineus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Antennarius coccineus ), Eritrea ( Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius coccineus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.

Antennatus nummifer (Cuvier 1817)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius nummifer ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Antennarius cf. nummifer ; Pietsch & Grobecker 1987).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Chironectes nummifer ); Yemen ( Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius nummifer ).

General distribution: Eastern and central Atlantic; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Society islands .

Antennatus rosaceus Smith & Radcliffe 1912

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius rosaceus ).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Pacific: Ryukyu Islands, Philippines and Papua New Guinea east to Marshall and Samoan islands.

Histrio histrio (Linnaeus 1758)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1884, as Antennarius marmoratus ), Sudan ( Pietsch & Grobecker 1987), Eritrea ( Borsieri 1904, as Antennarius marmoratus ; Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in most of the eastern Pacific.