Leiognathidae Gill 1893
Creators: name: Golani, Daniel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Leiognathidae

description: LEIOGNATHIDAE   Aurigequula fasciata (Lacepède 1803)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau, Tonga and Samoa.   
 * Equulites aethopops Suzuki & Kimura 2017   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (El-Ganainy et al 2005, as Leiognathus elongatus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Golani et al. 2011a, as Equulites elongatus; Suzuki & Kimura 2017), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Equulites elongatus).   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (Golani et al. 2011a, as Equulites elongatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Equulites klunzingeri (Steindachner 1898)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Steindachner 1898a).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966, as Leiognathus klunzingeri).   
 Equulites popei (Whitley 1932)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Suzuki & Kimura 2017).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Philippines.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Suzuki & Kimura 2017).   
 Eubleekeria splendens (Cuvier 1829)   
 Red Sea: (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835, as Equula gomorah).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Fiji.   
 Gazza minuta (Bloch 1795)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Gazza argentaria), Eritrea (Rüppell 1835, as Gazza equulaeformis).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Society Islands.   
 Leiognathus berbis (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (El-Ganainy et al 2005).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber equula minimus; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Scomber equula minimus; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Indonesia.   
 Leiognathus equulus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Equula equula), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to eastern Caroline Islands.   
 Photopectoralis bindus (Valenciennes 1835)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1932, as Leiognathus lineolatus; Bayoumi 1972, as Leiognathus bindus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to Philippines and Fiji.
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 87-89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566