MYCTOPHIDAE Benthosema fibulatum (Gilbert & Cramer 1897) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Yemen (Kotthaus 1972). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian and Marquesas islands. Benthosema pterotum (Alcock 1890) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Aron & Goodyear 1969, as Benthosema pterota), Jordan (Post & Svoboda 1980). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Aron & Goodyear 1969, as Benthosema pterota), Sudan (Dypvik & Kaartvedt 2013), Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (Aron & Goodyear 1969, as Benthosema pterota), (Dypvik & Kaartvedt 2013). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to southrn Japan, Philippines and New Guinea. Diaphus coeruleus (Klunzinger 1871) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Aron & Goodyear 1969), Jordan (Post & Svoboda 1980). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Scopelus coeruleus). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to New Guinea and New Caledonia.

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