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

description: HAEMULIDAE   * Diagramma punctatum Cuvier 1830   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Plectorhinchus pictus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Diagramma pictum).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diagramma cinerascens and D. umbrinum), Eritrea (Picaglia 1895), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Diagramma picta punctata), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Diagramma pictum).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Plectorhinchus albovittatus (Rüppell 1838)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Diagramma albovittatum), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983, as Plectorhynchus harrawayi).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands, Fiji and Tonga. Plectorhinchus flavomaculatus (Cuvier 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Diagramma flavomaculatum).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diagramma foetela), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Diagramma ornatum), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002, as Plectorhynchus flavomaculatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Vanuatu.   
 Plectorhinchus gaterinus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Randall & Johnson 2000), Israel (Shpigel 1997), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Diagramma gaterina), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Plectorhynchus gaterina), Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Diagramma gaterina), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena gaterina; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Diagramma gaterina).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf south to Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes.   
 Remark: A questionable record from the northern Aegean Sea (Corsini-Foka and Sarlis 2016).   
 Plectorhinchus gibbosus (Lacepède 1802)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Diagramma crassispinum). Yemen (Lieske & Myers 2010). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline and Society islands.   
 Plectorhinchus schotaf (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Diagramma griseum; Tortonese 1947a), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Diagramma schotaf), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève 1956).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India.   
 Plectorhinchus sordidus (Klunzinger 1870)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Diagramma sordidum), Eritrea (Botros 1971, as Diagramma sordidum), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Plectorhinchus sorolidus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf to Madagascar and western Mascarenes.   
 Pomadasys argenteus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Pristipoma argenteum), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena argentea; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and Vanuatu.   
 Pomadasys kaakan (Cuvier 1830)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Pomadasys kaakan).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Pomadasys maculatus (Bloch 1793)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Fowler & Steinitz 1956).   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Pomadasys maculatum).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and New Guinea.   
 Pomadasys punctulatus (Rüppell 1838)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838, as Pristipoma punctulatum).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Oman to Persian Gulf.   
 Pomadasys stridens (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Pristipoma stridens).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Pristipoma stridens), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Pristipoma simmene; Picaglia 1895, as Pristipoma stridens), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Pomadasys striatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant in eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1977, as Rhonciscus stridens).
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 96-98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566