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

description: POMACANTHIDAE   Apolemichthys xanthotis (Fraser-Brunner 1950)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Klausewitz 1983a), Israel (Katzir & Schechtman 1986), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf.   
 Centropyge multispinis (Playfair 1867)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981, as Centropyge multispinnis).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Holacanthus vrolikii; Abu El-Regal 2017, as Centrepyge multispinis), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Holacanthus vroliki), Eritrea (Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Centropyge vroliki; Tortonese 1983).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Thailand and western Sumatra (Indonesia).   
 Genicanthus caudovittatus (Günther 1860)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Dor 1970, as Genicanthus melanospilus caudovittatus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Holacanthus melanospilus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Sumatra and Bali (western Indonesia).   
 Pomacanthus asfur (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Holacanthus asfur).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Euxiphipops asfur).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Holacanthus asfur), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Holacanthus asfur), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831, as Holacanthus caeruleus; Picaglia 1895, as Holacanthus asfur), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon asfur; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 Pomacanthus imperator (Bloch 1787)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955), Jordan (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Holacanthus imperator), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Holacanthus imperator; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani et al. 2010).   
 Pomacanthus maculosus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Klausewitz 1969c).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Holacanthus maculosus), Sudan (Klausewitz 1969c), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831, as Holacanthus mokhella and H. haddaja; Rüppell 1830, as Holacanthus lineatus and H. striatus; Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a, as Pomacanthops filamentosus; Clark et al. 1968), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Holacanthus lineatus; Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon maculosus and C. asfur caerulescens; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Pakistan.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean Sea (see Bariche 2010; Salameh et al 2012).   
 Pygoplites flavescens (Bennett 1831)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Holacanthus diacanthus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Holacanthus diacanthus), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Holacanthus diacanthus; Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Baschieri-Salvadori 1954a), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1836, as Holacanthus dux; Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Pigoplites diacanthus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Indonesia.   
 Remark: Accepted as a valid subspecies of P. diacanthus by Coleman et al. (2016); in the present paper raised to species level.
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 111-112, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566