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

description: SCOMBRIDAE   Auxis thazard (Lacepède 1800)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in East Pacific.   
 Euthynnus affinis (Cantor 1849)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Demidov & Viskrebentsev 1970).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Euthynnus alletteratus; Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Thynnus thunnina; Haroun et al. 2017), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Gymnosarda alletterata; Ben-Tuvia 1968), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.   
 Grammatorcynus bilineatus (Rüppell 1836)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Thynnus bilineatus), Sudan (Botros 1971), Eritrea (Rüppell 1836, as Thynnus bilineatus), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Grammatorcynus bicarinatus). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tonga.   
 Gymnosarda unicolor (Rüppell 1836)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Pelamys nuda), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Thynnus unicolor).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to French Polynesia and Marquesas Islands.   
 Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus 1758)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Euthynnus pelamys).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Euthynnus pelamis), Jordan (Marshall 1952, as Euthynnus pelamis).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier 1816)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Scomber kanagurta), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Scomber Kanagurta), Eritrea (Rüppell 1836, as Scomber chrysozonus and S. microlepidotus; Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1829, as Scomber kanagurta), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Samoa.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Collette 1970).   
 Sarda orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel 1844)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.   
 Scomber australasicus Cuvier 1832   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Mehanna 2004, as Scomber japonicus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Scomber japonicus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Scomber japonicus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Scomber janesaba); Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Scomber japonicus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands.   
 Remark: Red Sea materials previously recorded as Scomber japonicus (non Houttuyn 1782) are based on this species (see Baker & Collette 1998).   
 Scomberomorus commerson (Lacepède 1800)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bayoumi 1972, as Scomberomorus commersoni).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Cybium commersonii), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Cybium commersonii; Ben-Tuvia 1968), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983, as Scombermorus commersoni), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau and Fiji.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).   
 Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre 1788)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf et al. 1996).   
 Red Sea main basin: -   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas.   
 Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre 1788)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Germo albacora), Jordan (Marshall 1952, as Thynnus albacora).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Thunnus tonggol (Bleeker 1851)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to New Guinea.
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 170-171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566