Sphyraenidae Rafinesque 1815
Creators: name: Golani, Daniel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Sphyraenidae

description: SPHYRAENIDAE   Sphyraena barracuda (Edwards 1771)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870, as Sphyraena agam; Abu El-Regal et al. 2014), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1838, as Sphyraena affinis; Tortonese 1983), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific (waifs reaching Galápagos Archipelago).   
 Sphyraena flavicauda Rüppell 1838   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Debelius 2007), Israel (Golani & Lerner 2007), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Rüppell 1838; Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005, as Sphyraena obtusata), Sudan (Debelius 2007), (Lieske & Myers 2010),.   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines and New Guinea.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998).   
 Sphyraena forsteri Cuvier 1829   
 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017).   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf 2004).   
 Red Sea main basin: ¯   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Society and Marquesas islands.   
 Sphyraena iburiensis Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Doiuchi et al. 2011).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Pacific: Japan.   
 Sphyraena jello Cuvier 1829   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (El-Ganainy et al 2005).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Sudan (Botros 1971), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Fiji and Tonga.   
 Sphyraena obtusata Cuvier 1829   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1934).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Eritrea (Botros 1971).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Samoa.   
 Sphyraena pinguis Günther 1874: 157   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani & Lerner 2007, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1884, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: South Africa and Persian Gulf east to Australia and Japan.   
 Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1966, as Sphyraena chrysotaenia).   
 Sphyraena putnamae Jordan & Seale 1905   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Sphyraena putnamiae).   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Fiji and Tuvalu.   
 Sphyraena qenie Klunzinger 1870   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Sudan (Debelius 2007), Eritrea (Ben-Tuvia 1968).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.
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 120-121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566