Pseudochromidae Müller & Troschel 1849
Creators: name: Golani, Daniel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Pseudochromidae

description: PSEUDOCHROMIDAE   Chlidichthys auratus Lubbock 1975   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lubbock 1975).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Lubbock 1975), Sudan (Gill & Edwards 2004), Eritrea (Gill & Edwards 2004), Saudi Arabia (Isari et al. 2017), Yemen (Gill & Edwards 2004).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 * Chlidichthys rubiceps Lubbock 1975   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lubbock 1975), Israel (Lubbock 1975), Jordan (Lubbock 1975).   
 Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Lubbock 1975), Saudi Arabia (Lubbock 1975), Yemen (Gill & Edwards 2004). General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
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 Haliophis guttatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Winterbottom 1985), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Sudan (Bamber 1915), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Muraena guttata; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Winterbottom 1985).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa to western Mascarenes.   
 *Pectinochromis lubbocki (Edwards & Randall 1983)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Edwards & Randall 1983, as Pseudoplesiops lubbocki).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Edwards & Randall 1983, as Pseudoplesiops lubbocki), Sudan (Edwards & Randall 1983, as Pseudoplesiops lubbocki), Saudi Arabia (Edwards & Randall 1983, as Pseudoplesiops lubbocki). General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Pseudochromis dixurus Lubbock 1975   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lubbock 1975), Jordan (Lubbock 1975).   
 Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Lubbock 1975), Saudi Arabia (Lubbock 1975).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 * Pseudochromis flavivertex Rüppell 1835   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Lubbock 1975).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lubbock 1975), Jordan (Lubbock 1975).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007), (Lieske & Myers 2010), Sudan (Lubbock 1975), Eritrea (Rüppell 1835), Saudi Arabia (Lubbock 1975), Yemen (Lubbock 1975).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 * Pseudochromis fridmani Klausewitz 1968   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Klausewitz 1968b), Israel (Klausewitz 1968b), Jordan (Lubbock 1975).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Abel 1960, as Chlidichthys johnvoelkeri; Klausewitz 1968b), Sudan (Lubbock 1975), Saudi Arabia (Lubbock 1975).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Pseudochromis nigrovittatus Boulenger 1897   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Yemen (Gill 2004).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf to Iran.   
 Pseudochromis olivaceus Rüppell 1835   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971; Lubbock 1975).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Sudan (Bamber 1915), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Gill 2004).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 * Pseudochromis pesi Lubbock 1975   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lubbock 1975), Jordan (Lubbock 1975), Saudi Arabia (Lubbock 1975).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.   
 Pseudochromis sankeyi Lubbock 1975   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Lubbock 1975), Yemen (Gill 2004).   
 General distribution: Southern Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, East Africa.   
 * Pseudochromis springeri Lubbock 1975   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Lubbock 1975), Israel (Lubbock 1975), Jordan (Lubbock 1975).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007), (Lieske & Myers 2010), Sudan (Lubbock 1975), Saudi Arabia (Lubbock 1975).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.
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 67-69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566