Hemiramphidae  1859
Creators: name: Golani, Daniel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Beloniformes
Hemiramphidae

description: HEMIRAMPHIDAE   Euleptorhamphus viridis (van Hasselt 1823)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Parin et al. 1980).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.   
 Hemiramphus far (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847b, as Hemiramphus commersonii; Norman 1927, as Hemirhamphus far).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Farhians far).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847b, as Hemiramphus commersonii; Picaglia 1895), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Esox marginatus far; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Philippines, Samoa and Tonga.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966).   
 Hemiramphus marginatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Norman 1927, as Hemirhamphus dussumieri; Chabanaud 1934, as Hemirhamphus marginatus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Hemirhamphus dussumieri).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Sudan (Botros 1971), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Esox marginatus; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf.   
 Hyporhamphus affinis (Günther 1866)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1932, as Hemiramphus dussumieri).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Parin et al. 1980).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Hemiramphus dussumieri; Parin et al. 1980), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Hemiramphus dussumieri).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).   
 Hyporhamphus balinensis (Bleeker 1859)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Parin et al. 1980), Eritrea (Parin et al. 1980).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 Hyporhamphus gamberur (Rüppell 1837)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Hemirhamphus gamberur).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Hemirhamphus gamberur).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Hemirhamphus gamberur), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Hemirhamphus gamberur), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Hemiramphus gamberur), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève 1956, as Hemiramphus gamberur).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 Oxyporhamphus bruuni Parin, Collette & Shcherbachev 1980   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Parin et al. 1980, as O. convexus bruuni).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to northwestern India.
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 41-42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566