SPHYRNIDAE Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith 1834) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel 1936, as Sphyrna zygaena; Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Sphyrna diplana). Gulf of Aqaba: Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Sphyrna diplana), Eritrea (Klunzinger 1871, as Zygaena erythraea; Gilbert 1967), Saudi Arabia (Spaet et al. 2015). General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas. Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell 1837) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Baranes 2013). Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia 1968), Israel (Ben-Tuvia 1968). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Zygaena mokarran), Saudi Arabia (Tortonese 1983). General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.

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 page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566