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

description: TETRAODONTIDAE   Arothron diadematus (Rüppell 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Marshall 1952, as Amblyrhynchotes diadematus), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Tetrodon aff. diademata), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon nigropunctatus var. diadematus), Sudan (Edwards & Rosewell 1981), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956, as Amblyrhynchotes nigropunctatus diadematus), Saudi Arabia (Roux- Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Tetraodon nigropunctatus), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Tetraodon hispidus, edjilis; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus 1758)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Sanzo 1930, as Tetrodon perspicillaris; Botros 1971, as Tetrodon hispidus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Randall et al. 2012), Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon hispidus and Tetrodon pusillus), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Tetrodon hispidus), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Tetraodon perspicillaris and Tetraodon semistriatus; Picaglia 1895, as Tetrodon hispidus), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Tetraodon reticularis; Tortonese 1983, as Arothron hispidus perspicillaris; Randall et al. 2012).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.   
 Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Tetrodon immaculatus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Joannis 1835, as Tetraodon parvus; Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon immaculatus), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Tetrodon immaculatus), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Tetraodon sordidus; Picaglia 1895, as Tetrodon immaculatus), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Ryukyu Islands and Philippines.   
 Arothron multilineatus Matsuura 2016   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Matsuura 2016).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Pacific: Ryukyu Islands.   
 Arothron stellatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Arothron aerostaticus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani et al. 2008), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon stellatus), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Tetrodon stellatus), Eritrea (Borsieri 1904, as Tetrodon stellatus), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1829, as Tetraodon calamara; Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Kotthaus 1979).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Tuamotu Archipelago.   
 Canthigaster cyanospilota Randall, Williams & Rocha 2008   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Debelius 2007, as Canthigaster coronata; Randall et al. 2008; Lieske & Myers 2010, as Canthigaster coronata), Israel (Randall et al. 2008), Jordan (Marshall 1952, as Canthigaster cinctus; Randall et al. 2008).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Clark & Gohar 1953, as Canthigaster cinctus), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Canthigaster coronata).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western Indonesia.   
 Canthigaster margaritata (Rüppell 1829)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1829, as Tetraodon margaritatus)   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Israel (Tortonese 1968), Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon margaritatus), Eritrea (Sanzo 1930, as Tetrodon margaritatus), Saudi Arabia (Picaglia 1895, as Tetrodon margaritatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Andaman Sea.   
 Canthigaster pygmaea Allen & Randall 1977   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Golani 1999).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Allen & Randall 1977), Israel (Allen & Randall 1977), Jordan (Khalaf & Kochzius 2002). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Allen & Randall 1977), Sudan (Allen & Randall 1977).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden.   
 Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Ribeiro 1915   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1837, as Tetraodon lunaris; Matsuura et al. 2011).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Tetrodon lunaris).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon lunaris), Eritrea (Giglioli 1889, as Tetrodon lunaris), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, Madagascar and Persian Gulf east to Indonesia and southern Japan.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean Sea, recorded as Lagocephelus spadiceus (see Matsuura et al 2011).   
 Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin 1789)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993, as Lagocephalus scleratus), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon sceleratus), Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Tetrodon sceleratus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan, Philippines and New Caledonia.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean Sea (see Golani & Levy, 2008).   
 * Lagocephalus suezensis Clark & Gohar 1953   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Clark & Gohar 1953).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea endemic.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).   
 Torquigener flavimaculosus Hardy & Randall 1983   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Rüppell 1829, as Tetraodon honkenji; Hardy & Randall 1983).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Hardy & Randall 1983), Israel (Steinitz & Ben-Tuvia 1955, as Amblyrhynchotes hypselogeneion; Hardy & Randall 1983), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Tetrodon poecilonotus), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Sphaeroides hypselogeneion).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa and Persian Gulf, Seychelles and Madagascar. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).   
 Tylerius spinosissimus (Regan 1908)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Fricke et al. 2016a)   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Budker & Fourmanoir 1954, as Amblyrhynchotes spinosissimus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, Madagascar and Réunion east South China Sea, Indonesia and New Caledonia.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean Sea (Corsini et al. 2005)
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 181-183, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566