Pempheridae Bleeker 1859
Creators: name: Golani, Daniel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pempheridae

description: PEMPHERIDAE   * Parapriacanthus guentheri (Klunzinger 1871)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010 as Parapriacanthus ransonneti), (Randall & Bogorodsky 2016), Jordan (Froukh 2001, as Parapriacanthus ransonnari) (Khalaf 2004, as Parapriacanthus ransonneti).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Pempherichthys güntheri), Saudi Arabia (Randall & Bogorodsky 2016).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 * Parapriacanthus sharm Randall & Bogorodsky 2016   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Randall & Bogorodsky 2016).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Pempheris erythraea Kossmann & Räuber 1877   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Koeda et al. 2014, as Pempheris mangula).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Randall et al. 2014a, as Pempheris flavicycla marisrubri), Israel (Koeda et al. 2014, as Pempheris adusta).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Pempheris mangula; Kossmann & Räuber 1877; Randall et al. 2014a, as Pempheris flavicycla marisrubri), Sudan (Koeda et al. 2014, as Pempheris adusta), Eritrea (Koeda et al. 2014, as Pempheris adusta), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Pempheris mangula; Randall et al. 2014, as Pempheris flavicycla marisrubri).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 * Pempheris orbis Randall & Victor 2015   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Randall & Victor 2015).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Randall & Victor 2015).   
 General distribution: Northern Red Sea endemic.   
 * Pempheris rhomboidea Kossmann & Räuber 1877   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Randall et al. 2014b)   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Randall et al. 2014b).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Pempheris rhomboideus; Randall et al. 2014b). General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Remark. Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Randall et al. 2014b).   
 Pempheris schwenkii Bleeker 1855   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Randall & Bineesh 2014), Saudi Arabia (Randall & Bineesh 2014).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Tonga.   
 * Pempheris sergey Randall & Victor 2015   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Randall & Victor 2015).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 * Pempheris shirleen Randall & Victor 2015   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Randall & Victor 2015).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 * Pempheris tau Randall & Victor 2015   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Randall & Victor 2015).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Randall & Victor 2015).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 * Pempheris tilman Randall & Victor 2015   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Randall & Victor 2015).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.   
 * Pempheris tiran Randall & Victor 2015   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Saudi Arabia (Randall & Victor 2015).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Northern Red Sea endemic.   
 Pempheris tominagai Koeda, Yoshino & Tachihara 2014   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Koeda et al. 2014).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Koeda et al. 2014), Saudi Arabia (Randall et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 * Pempheris viridis Randall & Victor 2015   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Randall & Victor 2015).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.
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 105-106, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566