Tripterygiidae Whitley 1931
Creators: name: Golani, Daniel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Tripterygiidae

description: TRIPTERYGIIDAE   Enneapterygius abeli (Klausewitz 1960)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Clark 1980).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Clark 1980), Israel (Clark 1980), Jordan (Khalaf 2004).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klausewitz 1960a, as Tripterygion abeli), Sudan (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012), Eritrea (Clark et al. 1968, as Tripterygion abeli), Yemen (Holleman 2005).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Chagos Archipelago.   
 * Enneapterygius altipinnis Clark 1980   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Clark 1980).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012), Sudan (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012), Eritrea (Clark 1980), Saudi Arabia (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Remark: Previous records of Enneapterygius tutuilae (non Jordan & Seale 1906) are based on E. altipinnis (see Holleman 2005).   
 Enneapterygius clarkae Holleman 1982   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Holleman 1982).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Madagascar and Cargados Carajos. * Enneapterygius destai Clark 1980   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Clark 1980), Jordan (Khalaf 2004).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Goren & Spanier 1985, Fricke 1997), Sudan (Clark 1980), Eritrea (Clark 1980), Saudi Arabia (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012), Yemen (Holleman 2005).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Enneapterygius obscurus Clark 1980   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Clark 1980).   
 Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012), Eritrea (Clark 1980), Saudi Arabia (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Maldives.   
 * Enneapterygius pallidus Clark 1980   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Clark 1980).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.   
 Enneapterygius pusillus Rüppell 1838   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Clark 1980).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Clark 1980), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Tripterygium pusillum), Eritrea (Rüppell 1835).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to southern India.   
 * Enneapterygius qirmiz Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Debelius 2007; Lieske & Myers 2010, as Enneapterygius sp.).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012), Sudan (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012), Saudi Arabia (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012), Yemen (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Enneapterygius ventermaculus Holleman 1982   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Yemen (Fricke in Golani & Bogorodsky 2010).   
 General distribution: Southern Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Pakistan.   
 Helcogramma obtusirostris (Klunzinger 1871)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Tripterygion obtusirostris), Egypt (Fricke 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Tripterygium obtusirostre), Eritrea (Clark et al. 1968, as Tripterygion obtusirostre).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Oman.   
 Helcogramma steinitzi Clark 1980   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Clark 1980).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Clark 1980), Israel (Clark 1980).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Holleman 2006), Ethiopia (Clark 1980), Saudi Arabia (Holleman & Bogorodsky 2012).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf.   
 Norfolkia brachylepis (Schultz 1960)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Clark 1980, as Norfolkia springeri).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga.
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 142-144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566