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

description: NEMIPTERIDAE   Nemipterus bipunctatus (Valenciennes 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937, as Synagris filamentosus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Synagris filamentosus), Saudi Arabia (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830b, as Dentex bipunctatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Singapore.   
 Nemipterus japonicus (Bloch 1791)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bayoumi 1972; Diamant & Porter 1983).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Diamant & Porter 1983).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Cantharus filamentosus; Tortonese 1947a), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Kotthaus 1974b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Nemipterus peronii (Valenciennes 1830)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Synagris tolu).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Synagris tolu).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Philippines and Vanuatu.   
 Nemipterus randalli Russell 1986   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf & Zajonz 2007).   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to India.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani and Sonin 2006, as Nemipterus japonicus; Stern et al. 2014a).   
 Nemipterus zysron (Bleeker 1857)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Golani, 1999).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (new record, based on HUJ 20285, idenified by D. Golani).   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Fiji.   
 Parascolopsis aspinosa (Rao & Rao 1981)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Russell & Golani 1993), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to Andaman Sea.   
 * Parascolopsis baranesi Russell & Golani 1993   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993, as Parascolopsis sp. 1 and Parascolopsis sp. 2; Russell & Golani 1993).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Gulf of Aqaba endemic.   
 Parascolopsis eriomma (Jordan & Richardson 1909)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bayoumi 1972).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993; Russell & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Russell & Golani 1993).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Scolopsis bimaculatus Rüppell 1828   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Scolpsis bimaculatus), Sudan (Debelius 2007), Eritrea (Rüppell 1828), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Sri Lanka and Bay of Bengal (India).   
 Scolopsis ghanam (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Scolopsides ghanam).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel: Israel (Golani & Diamant, 1999), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Scolopsides ghanam), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena ghanam; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena ghanam; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indian Ocean: East Africa east to Andaman Islands.   
 Scolopsis taeniata (Cuvier 1830)   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Scolopsides taeniatus), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b, as Scolopsis taeniatus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden east to Sri Lanka.   
 Scolopsis vosmeri (Bloch 1792)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Scolpsis vosmeri), Eritrea (Rüppell 1828, as Scolopsis kurite; Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830a, as Scolopsides ruppelii; Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and New Guinea.
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 94-95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566