CLUPEIDAE Amblygaster sirm (Walbaum 1792) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Bertin 1943, as Sardinella sirm). Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Clupea liogaster), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea sirm), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to northern Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Samoa and Tonga. Herklotsichthys punctatus (Rüppell 1837) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Harengula punctata). Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Whitehead 1965), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997). Red Sea main basin: Sudan (Whitehead 1965), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847a, as Harengula punctata), Saudi Arabia (Whitehead 1965). General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden. Remark: Lessepsian migrant in eastern Mediterranean (see Ben-Tuvia 1977). Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus (Rüppell 1837) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Clupea quadrimaculata). Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani et al. 2008), Jordan (Khalaf 2004). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Clupea venenosa), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Clupea moluccensis), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea quadrimaculata), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines, Samoa and Tonga. Sardinella albella (Valenciennes 1847) Red Sea: Egypt (Haroun et al. 2017). Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1837, as Clupea kowal; Bogorodsky et al. 2014b), Eritrea (Giglioli 1889, as Clupea kowal; Whitehead 1965, as Sardinella fimbriata; Stern et al. 2016). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to New Guinea. Sardinella gibbosa (Bleeker 1849) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1933, as Harengula dollfusi; Stern et al. 2014b). Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Stern et al. 2014b). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Stern et al. 2014b). Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes 1847 Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Bogorodsky et al. 2011a). General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: Somalia and Gulf of Aden east to India. Spratelloides delicatulus (Bennett 1832) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Budker & Fourmanoir 1954). Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Whitehead 1965), Israel (Fowler & Steinitz 1956), Jordan (Froukh 2001, Khalaf 2004). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Marshall 1952), Sudan (Botros 1971), Eritrea (Whitehead 1965), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Stolephorus delicatulus). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998). Spratelloides gracilis (Temminck & Schlegel 1846) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Chabanaud 1932). Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Whitehead 1965), Israel (Whitehead 1965), Jordan (Khalaf 2004). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Eritrea (Borsieri 1904), Saudi Arabia (Isari et al. 2017, as Sprateloides gracilis). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to southern Japan and Tuamotu Archipelago.

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 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566