Carangidae Rafinesque 1815
Creators: name: Golani, Daniel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Carangidae

description: CARANGIDAE   Alectis ciliaris (Bloch 1788)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1830, as Citula ciliaris), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1830, as Blepharis fasciatus).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas.   
 Alectis indica (Rüppell 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx gallus), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1833, as Scyris indica), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1830, as Scyris indicus), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Alectis indicus). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 Alepes djedaba (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber djedaba; see Fricke 2008)   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Fowler 1931, as Caranx djeddaba), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Atule djeddaba), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber djedaba; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber djedaba; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966, as Atule djeddaba).   
 Alepes vari (Cuvier 1833)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010), Yemen (Bogorodsky et al. 2011a).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Solomon Islands.   
 Atule mate (Cuvier 1833)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bayoumi 1972, as Caranx mate).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Caranx affinis), Eritrea (Rüppell 1836, as Caranx affinis; Tortonese 1935, as Caranx mate), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands, Samoa and Tonga.   
 Carangoides armatus (Rüppell 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Caranx armatus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Tortonese 1935, as Caranx armatus), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Caranx armatus), Eritrea (Rüppell 1830, as Citula ciliaria; Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1833, as Olistus ruppellii; Bogorodsky et al. 2017b), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2017b), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Gulf of Thailand and southern China.   
 Carangoides bajad (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx fulvoguttatus var. flava), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968, Clark et al. 1968, as Caranx auroguttatus; Bogorodsky et al. 2017b), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002; Bogorodsky et al. 2017b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Carangoides chrysophrys (Cuvier 1833)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2017b), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Fiji.   
 Carangoides coeruleopinnatus (Rüppell 1830)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1830, as Caranx coeruleopinnatus; Bogorodsky et al. 2017b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Samoa and Tonga.   
 Carangoides equula (Temminck & Schlegel 1844)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Southeastern Atlantic: South Africa; Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: South Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Easter Island.   
 Carangoides ferdau (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Fowler & Steinitz 1956).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx ferdau), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Caranx ferdau), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber ferdau; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Line islands and Pitcairn Group.   
 Carangoides fulvoguttatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Bogorodsky et al. 2017b), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx fulvoguttatus and C. bleekeri), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Caranx bleekeri), Eritrea (Borsieri 1904), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau and Vanuatu.   
 Carangoides malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider 1801)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx talamparoides; Klunzinger 1884, as Caranx impudicus), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Carangoides chrysophrys; Bogorodsky et al. 2017b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and New Guinea.   
 Carangoides plagiotaenia Bleeker 1857   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx brevicarinatus; Bogorodsky et al. 2017b), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Caranx compressus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands, Tonga and Samoa.   
 Carangoides talamparoides Bleeker 1852   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Carangoides armatus; Bogorodsky et al. 2017b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to southern Japan, Guam and New Guinea.   
 Caranx heberi (Bennett 1830)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Krupp 2003).   
 Red Sea main basin: -   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Fiji.   
 Caranx ignobilis (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx sansun), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber ignobilis; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber ignobilis and S. sansun; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Line islands and Pitcairn Group.   
 Caranx melampygus Cuvier 1833   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx bixanthopterus), Sudan (Botros 1971), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Caranx bixanthopterus; Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Caranx melanpygus). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.   
 Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard 1825   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx hippus), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Marquesas islands. Decapterus kurroides Bleeker 1855   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Kimura et al. 2013).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Philippines.   
 Decapterus macarellus (Cuvier 1833)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Decapterus jacobaeus).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Decapterus macrosoma Bleeker 1851   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (El-Ganainy et al 2005).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.   
 Decapterus russelli (Rüppell 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1830, as Caranx russelli; Demidov & Viskrebentsev 1970, as Decapterus kiliche; Kimura et al. 2013).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Demidow & Viskrebentsev 1970, as Decapterus kiliche), Sudan (Fowler 1931). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Fiji.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966, as Caranx kiliche; Golani 2006).   
 Elagatis bipinnulata (Quoy & Gaimard 1825)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Seriolichthys bipinnulata), Sudan (Krupp 1990).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Gnathanodon speciosus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1817, as Caranx petaurista; Gruvel 1936, as Caranx speciosus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx speciosus), Sudan (Debelius 2007), Eritrea (Rüppell 1830, as Caranx petaurista; Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1833, as Caranx speciosus), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber speciosus; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.   
 Megalaspis cordyla (Linnaeus 1758)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx rottleri), Eritrea (Rüppell 1830, as Caranx rottleri; Ben- Tuvia 1968), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Samoa.   
 Naucrates ductor (Linnaeus 1758)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Borsieri 1904).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Parastromateus niger (Bloch 1795)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Scomberoides commersonnianus Lacepède 1801   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1832, as Chorinemus exoletus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Scomberoides lysan (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Chorinemus toloo and C. lysan), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Lichia toloo-parah; Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1832, as Chorinemus moadetta), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber lysan; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber lysan; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands.   
 Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch 1793)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tortonese 1948).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Caranx macrophthalmus), Eritrea (Rüppell 1830, as Caranx macrophthamus), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Seriola dumerili (Risso 1810)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Seriola aureo-vittata), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific.   
 Seriolina nigrofasciata (Rüppell 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Fowler & Steinitz 1956, as Seriola nigrofasciata), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Seriola nigrofasciata), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Nomeus nigrofasciatus), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Southeastern Atlantic; Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Trachinotus baillonii (Lacepède 1801)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Trachynotus Baillonii).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Trachynotus baillonii), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Cäsiomorus quadripunctatus), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967, as Trachinotus bailloni).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to northern Line and Gambier islands.   
 Trachinotus blochii (Lacepède 1801)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯
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 82-86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566