ACANTHURIDAE

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 : 166-168

ACANTHURIDAE

Acanthurus gahhm (Forsskål 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Acanthurus nigricans ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus gahm ), Sudan ( Edwards & Rosewell 1981, as Acanthurus nigricans ), Eritrea ( Rüppell 1829, as Acanthurus nigricans and A. gahhm ), Saudi Arabia ( Rüppell 1829, as A. gahhm ).

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

Acanthurus mata Cuvier 1829

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus bleekeri ; Haroun et al. 2017).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Tuamotu Archipelago and Marquesas Islands.

Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Forsskål 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Botros 1971, as Teuthis matoides ).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Marshall 1952), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Teuthis nigro-fuscus ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus rubropunctatus and A. matoides ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Teuthis matoides ; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea ( Picaglia 1895, as Acanthurus mathoides ; Tortonese 1935, as Hepatus nigro-fuscus ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon nigrofuscus ; see Fricke 2008).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago .

Acanthurus sohal (Forsskål 1775)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Fishelson et al. 1985).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Shpigel, 1997), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871), Sudan ( Botros 1971; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Ben- Tuvia 1968, Clark et al. 1968), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).

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

Remark: One specimen was recorded in the Mediterranean, probably an aquarium release (see Giovos et al in press).

Ctenochaetus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard 1825)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Ctenochaetus strigosus ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus ctenodon and Acronurus argenteus ), Sudan ( Borodin 1930, as Acanthurus strigosus and Ctenochetus strigosus ; Randall & Clements 2001), Eritrea (Clark et al. 1968, as Ctenochaetus strigosus ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Ctenochaetus strigosus ; Tortonese 1983).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Ogasawara Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago.

Naso annulatus (Quoy & Gaimard 1825)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Naseus annularis ).

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

Naso brevirostris (Cuvier 1829)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Naseus brevirostris ).

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

Naso elegans ( Rüppell 1829)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Naso lituratus ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Naseus lituratus ), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Naseus lituratus ; Edwards & Rosewell 1981, as Naso lituratus ), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Naso lituratus ). General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Indonesia, but not in northwestern Indian Ocean.

Naso hexacanthus (Bleeker 1855)

Gulf of Suez: Egypt ( Steindachner 1898a, as Naseus vomer ).

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Naseus vomer ), Saudi Arabia ( Debelius 2007), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Marquesas islands and Ducie ( Pitcairn Group).

Naso unicornis (Forsskål 1775)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Debelius 2007), Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Naseus unicornis ), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Naseus fronticornis ; Klunzinger 1871, as Naseus unicornis ), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Naseus unicornis ), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon unicornis ; see Fricke 2008).

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

Zebrasoma desjardinii (Bennett 1836)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Zebrasoma veliferum ), Jordan ( Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Zebrasoma veliferum ).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus velifer ), Sudan ( Bamber 1915, as Zebrasoma rüppellii ; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Clark et al. 1968, as Zebrasoma veliferum ), Saudi Arabia ( Rüppell 1829, as Acanthurus velifer ; Tortonese 1983).

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

Zebrasoma xanthurum (Blyth 1852)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt ( Lieske & Myers 2010), Israel ( Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan ( Khalaf & Disi 1997).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt ( Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus xanthurus ), Sudan ( Botros 1971, as Acanthurus xanthurus ; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Clark et al. 1968), Saudi Arabia ( Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to Sri Lanka.

Remark: One specimen was recorded in the western Mediterranean, probably aquarium escape (see Guidetti et al 2015).