ENGRAULIDAE Encrasicholina gloria Hata & Motomura 2016 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Whitehad 1965, as Stolephorus buccaneeri; El-Ganainy et al 2005, as Stolephorus punetifer; Hata & Motomura 2016). Gulf of Aqaba: Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Hata & Motomura 2016). General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf. Remarks: Red Sea records of Encrasicholina punctifer (non Fowler 1938) are based on this species (see Hata & Motomura 2016). Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Hata & Motomura 2016). Encrasicholina heteroloba (Rüppell 1837) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Engraulis heterolobus). Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Martens 1867, as Engraulis heteroloba), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Engraulis heteroloba), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline Islands, Samoa and Tonga. Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus 1758) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902). Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: ¯ General distribution: Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Azov Sea, eastern Atlantic: Norway to South Africa including Madeira and Canary Islands; southwestern Indian Ocean. Remark: Anti-Lessepsian migrant from eastern Mediterranean into Red Sea (see Whitehead 1965). Stolephorus indicus (van Hasselt 1823) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Whitehead 1965), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Yemen (Whitehead 1965). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline, Mariana and Society islands. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the eastern Mediterranean (see Fricke et al. 2015a). Stolephorus insularis Hardenberg 1933 Gulf of Suez: Probably present, but not recorded. Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Probably present, but not recorded. General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to western Indonesia and South China Sea. Remark: This Indo-West Pacific species was recorded as a Lessepsian migrant from the southeastern Mediterranean by Fricke et al. (2012); it evidently arrived from the Gulf of Suez. Thryssa baelama (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: New record, based on specimens HUJ 20178, 20180 and 20181 (identified by D. Golani). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Engraulis boelama), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Engraulis boelama), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1848, as Engraulis boelama), Saudi Arabia (Whitehead 1965), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998, as Thryssa setirostris). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Caroline and Mariana islands, Samoa and Tonga.

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 31-32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566