PRIACANTHIDAE Priacanthus blochii Bleeker 1853 Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Randall 1994c). General distribution: Southern Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden and Seychelles east to Philippines and Samoa. Priacanthus hamrur (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981), Debelius 2007, as Heteropriacanthus cruentatus). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1870), Sudan (Krupp 1990), Eritrea (Tortonese 1935), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena hamrur; see Fricke 2008), Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Sciaena hamrur; see Fricke 2008). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marquesas and Gambier islands. Remark: Two specimens were recorded in the Mediterranean (Erguden et al. in press). Rriacanthus prolixus Starnes, 1988 Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: ¯ General distribution: Northwestern Indian Ocean: Somalia east to Pakistan. Remark: This species has not been recorded from the Red Sea but was recorded from the Mediterranean (Gürlek et al. 2017). Since its northwestern Indian Ocean distribution it is evidently occurring in the Red Sea. Priacanthus sagittarius Starnes 1988 Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017). Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf 2004). Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Réunion east to southern Japan, Philippines and Samoa. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean (see Golani et al. 2011c). Pristigenys refulgens (Valenciennes 1862) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia in Dor 1984, as Pristigenys niphonia), Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993, as Pristigenys niphonia; Iwatsuki et al. 2012), Jordan (Khalaf 2004, as Pristigenys niphonia). Red Sea main basin: southern Red Sea (Iwatsuki et al. 2012) General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Indonesia and southern Japan.

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 70-71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566