Caesionidae Bonaparte 1831
Creators: name: Golani, Daniel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Caesionidae

description: CAESIONIDAE   Caesio caerulaurea Lacepède 1801   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Caesio caerulaureus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Carpenter 1987), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Caesio caerulaureus); Jordan (Bouchon et al., as Caesio coerulaureus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Caesio coerulaureus), Sudan (Debelius 2007), Eritrea (Borsieri 1904, as Caesio coerulaureus), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1830, as Caesio azuraureus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall, Tuamotu and Marquesas islands.   
 Caesio lunaris Cuvier 1830   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Sudan (Bamber 1915), Eritrea (Rüppell 1838; Carpenter 1987), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Fiji.   
 Caesio striata Rüppell 1830   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Carpenter 1987), Jordan (Khalaf 2004).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1830, as Caesio striatus), Sudan (Carpenter 1987), Ethiopia (Carpenter 1987), Saudi Arabia (Carpenter 1987).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 * Caesio suevica Klunzinger 1884   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Carpenter 1987), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Caesio suevicus), Sudan (Carpenter 1987).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Caesio varilineata Carpenter 1987   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Sudan (Krupp 1990).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Sumatra and Java.   
 Caesio xanthonota Bleeker 1853   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Yemen (Randall 1994c).   
 General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Indonesia.   
 Dipterygonotus balteatus (Valenciennes, 1830)   
 General distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Solomon Islands.   
 Remark: This species has not been recorded from the Red Sea but was recorded from the Mediterranean (Bariche & Fricke, 2018). Since its wide Indo-Pacific distribution including the Gulf of Aden, it is evidently occurring in the Red Sea.   
 Gymnocaesio gymnoptera (Bleeker 1856)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Sudan (Carpenter 1987), Saudi Arabia (Carpenter 1987).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Fiji.   
 Pterocaesio chrysozona (Cuvier 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Carpenter 1987), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Yemen (Kotthaus 1975).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Samoa.
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 93-94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566