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

description: PLATYCEPHALIDAE   Cociella punctata (Cuvier 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Golani, 1999).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993, as Cociella crocodila).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Hassanine 2005, as Cociella crocodila).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Vanuatu.   
 Grammoplites suppositus (Troschel 1840)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Knapp 1979), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indian Ocean: Somalia and Persian Gulf east to Sri Lanka.   
 Onigocia bimaculata Knapp, Imamura & Sakashita 2000   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Knapp et al. 2000), Israel (Knapp et al. 2000).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Comoros and Mauritius east to Society Islands.   
 Papilloculiceps longiceps (Cuvier 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Platycephalus tentaculatus; Gruvel 1936, as Platycephalus longiceps).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Platycephalus tentaculatus; Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Platycephalus longiceps), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829b, as Platycephalus longiceps).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman and Gulf of Aden south to northern South Africa and Madagascar.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).   
 Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus 1758)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Platycephalus insidiator; Bayoumi 1972).   
Gulf of Aqaba:  
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Platycephalus insidiator), Sudan (Bamber 1915), Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Platycephalus insidiator), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Philippines and New Guinea.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966).   
 Rogadius pristiger (Cuvier 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bayoumi 1972, as Platycephalus tuberculatus; Sabrah et al. 2015, as Rogadius asper).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Platycephalus tuberculatus; Dor 1970).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Knapp 1979, as Rogadius asper).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and New Guinea.   
 Sorsogona prionota (Sauvage 1873)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Knapp 1979).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Kotthaus 1980), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Pakistan.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani & Ben-Tuvia 1990).   
 Thysanophrys springeri Knapp 2013   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Knapp 2013).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Knapp 2013), Yemen (Knapp 2013).   
 Remark: Red Sea records of Thysanophrys chiltonae (non Schultz 1966) are based on this species (see Knapp 2013).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.
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 58-59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566