TORPEDINIDAE

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 : 14

TORPEDINIDAE

Torpedo panthera Olfers 1831

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1837).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Klausewitz 1959a), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Sudan ( Bamber 1915), Saudi Arabia ( Tortonese 1983), Yemen ( Botros 1971).

General distribution: Red Sea, northern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to Bay of Bengal ( India).

Torpedo sinuspersici Olfers 1831

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan ( Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Sudan ( Bamber 1915).

General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India.

* Torpedo suessii Steindachner 1898

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Yemen ( Steindachner 1898a).

General distribution: Southern Red Sea endemic.