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

description: ANTENNARIIDAE   Antennarius commerson (Latreille 1804)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Chironectes caudimaculatus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Danois 1971, as Uniantennatus caudimaculatus), Israel (Dor 1970, as Antennarius commersonii), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Antennarius commersoni).   
 Red Sea main basin: -   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.   
 Antennarius maculatus (Desjardins 1840)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯.   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Madagascar and Mauritius east to Hawaiian and Society islands.   
 Antennarius pictus (Shaw 1794)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Danois 1971, as Antennarius chironectes), Israel (Danois 1971, as Antennarius chironectes; Pietsch & Grobecker 1987).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Society islands.   
 Antennarius striatus (Shaw 1794)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987), Israel (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific.   
 Antennatus coccineus (Lesson 1831)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Danois 1971, as Antennarius coccineus and A. immaculatus), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Antennarius aff. coccineus; Danois 1971, as Antennarius coccineus and A. immaculatus), Jordan (Khalaf 2004, as Antennarius coccineus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Antennarius coccineus), Eritrea (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius coccineus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.   
 Antennatus nummifer (Cuvier 1817)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius nummifer).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Antennarius cf. nummifer; Pietsch & Grobecker 1987).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Chironectes nummifer); Yemen (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius nummifer).   
 General distribution: Eastern and central Atlantic; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Society islands.   
 Antennatus rosaceus Smith & Radcliffe 1912   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987, as Antennarius rosaceus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Pacific: Ryukyu Islands, Philippines and Papua New Guinea east to Marshall and Samoan islands.   
 Histrio histrio (Linnaeus 1758)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Antennarius marmoratus), Sudan (Pietsch & Grobecker 1987), Eritrea (Borsieri 1904, as Antennarius marmoratus; Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in most of the eastern Pacific.
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 37-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566