Lutjanidae
Creators: name: Golani, Daniel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Lutjanidae

description: LUTJANIDAE   Aphareus furca (Lacepède 1801)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Marshall 1952).   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Debelius 2007), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Aphareus furcatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group.   
 Aphareus rutilans Cuvier 1830   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Marshall 1952).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands.   
 Aprion virescens Valenciennes 1830   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
Gulf of Aqaba ¯  
 Red Sea main basin: Yemen (Debelius 2007).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Marquesas islands.   
 Lutjanus argentimaculatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Mesoprion argentimaculatus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope argentimaculata), Sudan (Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Ehrenberg in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope macrolepis; Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Diacope argentimaculata).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Society Islands. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).   
 Lutjanus bohar (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Allen & Talbot 1985), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope bohar), Sudan (Bamber 1915), Saudi Arabia (Roux- Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope quadriguttata), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Pitcairn Group.   
 Lutjanus coeruleolineatus (Rüppell 1838)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Mesoprion coeruleolineatus), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Diacope coeruleo-lineata), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Diacope coeruleo-lineata).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and Pakistan.   
 Lutjanus ehrenbergii (Peters 1869)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Mesoprion ehrenbergi), Sudan (Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967, as Lutianus ehrenbergi).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline Islands and Fiji.   
 Lutjanus fulviflamma (Rüppell 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Mesoprion fulviflamma).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Mesoprion fulviflamma), Sudan (Fowler 1931), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Diacope fulviflamma), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope fulviflamma).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines, Samoa and Tonga.   
 Remark: A single specimen was recorded from the Mediterranean (see Vella et al 2015).   
 Lutjanus fulvus (Forster 1801)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Allen & Talbot 1985).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian, Line and Marquesas islands.   
 Lutjanus gibbus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Mesoprion gibbus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Lutjanus lineatus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope gibba), Sudan (Bamber 1915), Eritrea (Pellegrin 1912), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1829, as Diacope coccinea; Rüppell 1838, as Diacope melanura; Roux-Estève 1956, as Lutianus gibbus), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Line islands.   
 Lutjanus indicus Allen, White & Erdmann 2013   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Allen & Talbot 1985 as L. russellii), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968 as L. russellii, Clark et al. 1968 as L. russellii).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Andaman Sea.   
 Lutjanus kasmira (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope kasmira), Sudan (Tortonese 1947a), Eritrea (Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Kotthaus 1974a).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Line Islands and Pitcairn Group.   
 Lutjanus lutjanus Bloch 1790   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Diacope lineolata), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines, Vanuatu and Tonga.   
 Lutjanus monostigma (Cuvier 1828)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope monostigma), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Mesoprion monostigma), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Pitcairn.   
 Lutjanus rivulatus (Cuvier 1828)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Diacope rivulata), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau and Society Islands.   
 Lutjanus sanguineus (Cuvier 1828)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Diacope erythrina), Sudan (Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828, as Diacope sanguinea; Rüppell 1838, as Diacope erythrina), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India.   
 Lutjanus sapphirolineatus Iwatsuki, Al-Mamry & Heemstra 2016   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017, as Lutjanus bengalensis).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Giglioli 1889, as Genyoroge bengalensis, Allen & Talbot 1985, as Lutjanus bengalensis).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Somalia, Oman.   
 Remark: Previous Red Sea records of Lutjanus bengalensis (non Bloch 1790) are most probably based on this species (see Iwatsuki et al. 2016).   
 Lutjanus sebae (Cuvier 1816)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope sebae), Eritrea (Allen & Talbot 1985), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Philippines and Solomon Islands.   
 Remark: Two specimens were recorded in the Mediterranean, probably aquarium escapees (Zenetos et al 2016; Deidum and Piraino, 2017).   
 Macolor niger (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf 2004).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diacope nigra), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena nigra; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga.   
 Paracaesio sordidus Abe & Shinohara 1962   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Paracaesio xanthurus), (Debelius 2007, as Paracaesio caeruleus, Abu El-Regal 2017).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: South Africa and Madagascar east to Marquesas and Pitcairn islands.   
 Pristipomoides filamentosus (Valenciennes 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Zajonz 2007).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Centropristis filamentosus), Eritrea (Dor 1970, as Pristipomoides microlepis), Saudi Arabia (Trivedi et al. 2014).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Society islands.   
 Pristipomoides multidens (Day 1871)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes et al 2017), Jordan (Khalaf 2004, as Pristipomoides typus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Centropristis pristipoma), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Pristipomoides argyrogrammicus), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002, as Pristipomoides typus), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Samoa.   
 Pristipomoides sieboldii (Bleeker 1854)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Zajonz 2007).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Southeastern Atlantic: Vema Seamount; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Society islands.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 4509 (1) on pages 89-92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566