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

description: ACANTHURIDAE   Acanthurus gahhm (Forsskål 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Acanthurus nigricans).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus gahm), Sudan (Edwards & Rosewell 1981, as Acanthurus nigricans), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Acanthurus nigricans and A. gahhm), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1829, as A. gahhm).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 Acanthurus mata Cuvier 1829   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus bleekeri; Haroun et al. 2017).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Tuamotu Archipelago and Marquesas Islands.   
 Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Forsskål 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Teuthis matoides).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Teuthis nigro-fuscus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus rubropunctatus and A. matoides), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Teuthis matoides; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Acanthurus mathoides; Tortonese 1935, as Hepatus nigro-fuscus), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon nigrofuscus; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 Acanthurus sohal (Forsskål 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Fishelson et al. 1985).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Shpigel, 1997), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Sudan (Botros 1971; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Ben- Tuvia 1968, Clark et al. 1968), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf.   
 Remark: One specimen was recorded in the Mediterranean, probably an aquarium release (see Giovos et al in press).   
 Ctenochaetus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard 1825)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Ctenochaetus strigosus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus ctenodon and Acronurus argenteus), Sudan (Borodin 1930, as Acanthurus strigosus and Ctenochetus strigosus; Randall & Clements 2001), Eritrea (Clark et al. 1968, as Ctenochaetus strigosus), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Ctenochaetus strigosus; Tortonese 1983).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Ogasawara Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 Naso annulatus (Quoy & Gaimard 1825)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Naseus annularis).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian, Marquesas and Gambier islands.   
 Naso brevirostris (Cuvier 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Naseus brevirostris).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Galápagos Archipelago.   
 Naso elegans (Rüppell 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Naso lituratus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Naseus lituratus), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Naseus lituratus; Edwards & Rosewell 1981, as Naso lituratus), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Naso lituratus). General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Indonesia, but not in northwestern Indian Ocean.   
 Naso hexacanthus (Bleeker 1855)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Steindachner 1898a, as Naseus vomer).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Naseus vomer), Saudi Arabia (Debelius 2007), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Marquesas islands and Ducie (Pitcairn Group).   
 Naso unicornis (Forsskål 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Naseus unicornis), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Naseus fronticornis; Klunzinger 1871, as Naseus unicornis), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Naseus unicornis), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon unicornis; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Marquesas islands and Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 Zebrasoma desjardinii (Bennett 1836)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Zebrasoma veliferum), Jordan (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Zebrasoma veliferum).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus velifer), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Zebrasoma rüppellii; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Clark et al. 1968, as Zebrasoma veliferum), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1829, as Acanthurus velifer; Tortonese 1983).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Sumatra.   
 Zebrasoma xanthurum (Blyth 1852)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Acanthurus xanthurus), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Acanthurus xanthurus; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Clark et al. 1968), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to Sri Lanka.   
 Remark: One specimen was recorded in the western Mediterranean, probably aquarium escape (see Guidetti et al 2015).
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 166-168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566