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

description: SPARIDAE   Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Dentex robinsoni).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Chrysophrys berda), Sudan (Iwatsuki & Carpenter 2009), Eritrea (Pellegrin 1912, as Chrysophuys datnia; Tortonese 1935, as Sparus berda), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Chrysophrys berda), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus berda; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Singapore.   
 Acanthopagrus bifasciatus (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Chrysophrys bifasciatus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952, as Sparus bifasciatus), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Sparus bifasciatus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Chrysophrys bifasciata), Sudan (Martens 1867, as Chrysophrys bifasciata), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830b, as Chrysophrys bifasciata), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Chaetodon bifasciatus; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Mozambique Channel and Persian Gulf east to Pakistan.   
 Remark: A single specimen was recorded from the Mediterranean (Ben Souissi et al. 2014).   
 Argyrops filamentosus (Valenciennes 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bayoumi 1972).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf to Madagascar and western Mascarenes.   
 Argyrops megalommatus (Klunzinger 1870)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Pagrus megalommatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 Argyrops spinifer (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Pagrus spinifer).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Pagrus spinifer), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Pagrus spinifer), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus spinifer; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Argyrops spinifers).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Indonesia.   
 Cheimerius nufar (Valenciennes 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1838, as Dentex nufar).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Pakistan.   
 * Crenidens crenidens (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus crenidens; see Fricke 2008).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Crenidens forskalii; Budker & Fourmanoir 1954), Eritrea (Giglioli 1889, as Crenidens Foskalii; Tortonese 1935; Iwatsuki & Maclaine 2013), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus crenidens; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Bogorodsky et al. 2017a).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Norman 1927).   
 Diplodus noct (Valenciennes 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830b, as Sargus noct).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Sargus noct).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 Polysteganus coeruleopunctatus (Klunzinger 1870)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Dentex coeruleopunctatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa south to KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), east to Madagascar.   
 Rhabdosargus haffara (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Chrysophrys haffara).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Sparus haffara).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Chrysophrys haffara).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf to Madagascar.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).   
 Rhabdosargus sarba (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus sarba; see Fricke 2008).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Chrysophrys sarba), Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Chrysophrys sarba), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sparus sarba; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Sparus aurata Linnaeus 1758   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tortonese 1948).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani & Lerner 2007), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: British Isles to Senegal, Cape Verde   
Islands; introduced elsewhere.  
 Remark: Originally in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; introduced in the Red Sea.
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 100-102, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566