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

description: MONACANTHIDAE   Aluterus monoceros Linnaeus 1758   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Sanzo 1930, as Aluteres monoceros).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Alutera monoceros), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Remark: Two specimens were recorded in the western Mediterranean Sea, probably entered via Gibraltar (Guallart and Vicent 2009).   
 Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck 1765)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Monacanthus scriptus), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956, as Alutera scripta), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983, as Alutera scripta).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Amanses scopas (Cuvier 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Tortonese 1956), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Thamnaconus penicularius).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 * Brachaluteres fahaqa Clark & Gohar 1953   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Brachaluteres baueri fahaqa).   
 General distribution: Northern Red Sea endemic.   
 Cantherhines pardalis (Rüppell 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1837, as Monacanthus pardalis).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Amanses sandwichiensis), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Monacanthus pardalis), Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Monacanthus pardalis).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Ogasawara Islands, Marquesas Islands and Pitcairn Group.   
 * Oxymonacanthus halli Marshall 1952   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Debelius 2007), (Lieske & Myers 2010), Israel (Fishelson 1995).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Sudan (Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Oxymonacanthus longirostris).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Paraluteres arqat Clark & Gohar 1953   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 Paramonacanthus nematophorus (Günther 1870)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Klausewitz 1983a, as Paramonacanthus oblongus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Fowler & Steinitz 1956, as Monacanthus cirrosus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Paramonacanthus oblongus; Budker & Fourmanoir 1954, as Paramonacanthus barnardi), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Monacanthus cirrosus), Yemen (Kotthaus 1979, as Paramonacanthus sp.).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Seychelles.   
 Paramonacanthus pusillus (Rüppell 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Paramonacanthus falcatus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Monacanthus pusillus), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Monacanthus pusillus), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Kotthaus 1979, as Paramonacanthus falcatus). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and southern Japan.   
 Pervagor randalli Hutchins 1986   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Hutchins 1986), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Pervagor melanocephalus), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Monacanthus melanocephalus; Hutchins 1986).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 Stephanolepis diaspros Fraser-Brunner 1940   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Monacanthus setifer; Sanzo 1930, as Stephanolepis hispidus; Fraser-Brunner 1940).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Stephanolepis cf. oblongus); Jordan (Fraser-Brunner 1940). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Stephanolepis ocheticus), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Monacanthus setifer), Yemen (Sanzo 1930, as Stephanolepis hispidus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966).   
 * Thamnaconus erythraeensis Bauchot & Maugé 1978   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Bauchot & Maugé 1978, as Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis), Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993, as Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Thamnaconus modestoides erythraeensis).   
 Red Sea main basin: -   
 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 178-180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566