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

description: SYNODONTIDAE   * Harpadon erythraeus Klausewitz 1983   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017, as Harpadon nehereus).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Klausewitz 1983b), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1983b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 * Saurida golanii Russell 2011   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993 as Saurida tumbil; Russell 2011), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Saurida tumbil).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.   
 Saurida gracilis (Quoy & Gaimard 1824)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1934, as Saurida gracilis; Dollfus in Gruvel 1936, as Saurida sinaitica).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Kochzius 2002, as Saurida gracilis).   
 Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Fowler 1931).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group.   
 * Saurida lessepsianus Russell, Golani & Tikochinski 2015   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Demidov & Viskrebentsev 1970, as Saurida undosquamis; Russell et al. 2015).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Russell et al. 2015), Israel (Russell et al. 2015), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Saurida undosquamis).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Saurida nebulosa), Eritrea (Russell et al. 2015), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Saurida sp.), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Saurida undosquamis).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Remarks: Previous records of Saurida undosquamis (non Richardson 1848) and S. macrolepis (non Tanaka 1917) from the Gulf of Suez are based on this species (Russell et al. 2015). Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966, as Saurida undosquamis; Russell et al. 2015).   
 Saurida longimanus Norman 1939   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Goren & Spanier 1985, as Saurida undosquamis), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Kotthaus 1967, as Saurida undosquamis).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to India.   
 Saurida tumbil (Bloch 1795)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1837, as Saurus badimottah; Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1850, as Saurida tombil; Russell et al. 2015).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Saurida tumbil), Saudi   
 Arabia (Klausewitz 1967, as Saurida tumbil).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to India.   
 Synodus dermatogenys Fowler 1912   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952, as Synodus variegatus), Israel (Tortonese 1968, as Synodus variegatus), Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981, as Synodus variegatus; Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Synodus variegatus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Saurus varius), Sudan (Debelius 2007), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983, as Synodus vaiegatus), Sudan (Krupp 1990, as Synodus variegatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group.   
 Synodus hoshinonis Tanaka 1917   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Cressey 1981).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and New Caledonia.   
 Synodus indicus (Day 1873)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bayoumi 1972).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Kotthaus 1967, as Synodus dietrichi; Cressey 1981), Yemen (Kotthaus 1967, as Synodus dietrichi).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Synodus randalli Cressey 1981   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993, as Synodus doaki; Randall 2009), Jordan (Khalaf 2004, as Synodus doaki).   
 Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Cressey 1981).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Madagascar.   
 Synodus variegatus (Lacepède 1803)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (El-Ganainy et al 2005).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Cressey 1981, as Synodus englemani), Israel (Cressey 1981, as Synodus englemani), Jordan (Khalaf 2004, as Synodus englemani).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as S. erythraeus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group.   
 Trachinocephalus trachinus (Temminck & Schlegel 1846)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bayoumi 1972, as Trachinocephalus myops; Polanco Fernandez et al. 2016).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Polanco Fernandez et al. 2016), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Trachinocephalus myops; Polanco Fernandez et al. 2016), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Trachinocephalus myops).   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Trachinocephalus myops).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands.   
 Remark: Red Sea records of Trachinocephalus myops (non Forster in Bloch & Schneider 1801) are based on this species (see Polanco Fernandez et al. 2016).
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 34-35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566