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

description: CLUPEIDAE   Amblygaster sirm (Walbaum 1792)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bertin 1943, as Sardinella sirm).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Clupea liogaster), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea sirm), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to northern Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Samoa and Tonga.   
 Herklotsichthys punctatus (Rüppell 1837)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Harengula punctata).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Whitehead 1965), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Whitehead 1965), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847a, as Harengula punctata), Saudi Arabia (Whitehead 1965).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant in eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1977).   
 Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus (Rüppell 1837)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Clupea quadrimaculata).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani et al. 2008), Jordan (Khalaf 2004).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Clupea venenosa), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Clupea moluccensis), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea quadrimaculata), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines, Samoa and Tonga.   
 Sardinella albella (Valenciennes 1847)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea kowal; Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Eritrea (Giglioli 1889, as Clupea kowal; Whitehead 1965, as Sardinella fimbriata; Stern et al. 2016).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to New Guinea.   
 Sardinella gibbosa (Bleeker 1849)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1933, as Harengula dollfusi; Stern et al. 2014b).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Stern et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Stern et al. 2014b).   
 Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes 1847   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Bogorodsky et al. 2011a).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Somalia and Gulf of Aden east to India.   
 Spratelloides delicatulus (Bennett 1832)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Budker & Fourmanoir 1954). Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Whitehead 1965), Israel (Fowler & Steinitz 1956), Jordan (Froukh 2001, Khalaf 2004).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Sudan (Botros 1971), Eritrea (Whitehead 1965), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Stolephorus delicatulus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).   
 Spratelloides gracilis (Temminck & Schlegel 1846)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1932).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Whitehead 1965), Israel (Whitehead 1965), Jordan (Khalaf 2004).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Borsieri 1904), Saudi Arabia (Isari et al. 2017, as Sprateloides gracilis).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Tuamotu Archipelago.
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 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566