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

description: BALISTIDAE   Abalistes stellatus (Anonymous [Lacepède] 1798)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes 2005), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Balistes stellatus; Sanzo 1930, as Balistes lineatus), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Balistes stellatus; Sanzo 1930, as Balistes lineatus), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Abalistis stellatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Palau, Fiji and Tonga.   
 Balistapus undulatus (Park 1797)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Balistes undulatus), Sudan (Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Tortonese 1947a), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1829, as Balistes lineatus; Roux-Estève 1956).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Line and Marquesas islands and Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 Balistoides viridescens (Bloch & Schneider 1801)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Balistes viridescens), Sudan (Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Balistes viridescens), Saudi Arabia (Botros 1971, as Balistes viridescens).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Wake Atoll and Pitcairn Group.   
 Canthidermis macrolepis (Boulenger 1888)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes 2005).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956, as Canthidermis longirostris). General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden and southern Oman.   
 Odonus niger (Rüppell 1836)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Zenodon erythrodon), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Balistes erythrodon), Eritrea (Botros 1971, as Balistes niger), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1837, as Xenodon niger).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Ogasawara Islands, Marquesas and Society islands.   
 Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus (Rüppell 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Balistes flavimarginatus), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Balistes flavimarginatus), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1829, as Balistes flavimarginatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands east to Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 Pseudobalistes fuscus (Bloch & Schneider 1801)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Balistes fuscus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Xanthichthys fuscus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Balistes fuscus), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Balistes fuscus), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1829, as Balistes caerulescens; Rüppell 1837, as Balistes rivulatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 Rhinecanthus assasi (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Balistes assasi).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Rhinecanthus verrucosus), Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Balistes assasi), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Balistes assasi), Eritrea (Giglioli 1889, as Balistes assasi), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Balistes assasi; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf.   
 Sufflamen albicaudatum (Rüppell 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lieske & Myers 2010 as Sufflamen albicaudatus), Israel (Tortonese 1968, as Sufflamen albicaudatus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Sufflamen albicaudatus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Balistes niger), Saudi Arabia (Debelius 2007), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Balistes albicaudatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman to Persian Gulf.   
 Sufflamen fraenatum (Latreille 1804)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: (Randall 2005).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group.
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 177-178, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566