BELONIDAE Ablennes hians (Valenciennes 1846) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone melanostigma), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Belone schismatorhynchus), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846, as Belone melanostigma), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998). General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas. Platybelone platura (Rüppell 1837) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone platura), Eritrea (Rüppell 1837, as Belone platura). General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden. Tylosurus choram (Rüppell 1837) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Tillier 1902, as Belone choram). Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Belone choram). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone choram), Yemen (Botros 1971, as Belone choram), Eritrea (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Belone choram), Saudi Arabia (Gladstone 2002), Yemen (Heda et al. 1998). General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa east to western India. Remark: Lessepsian migrant into eastern Mediterranean (see Golani 1998). Tylosurus crocodilus (Péron & Lesueur 1821) Gulf of Suez: Egypt (El-Ganainy et al 2005). Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952, as Strongylura crocodila). Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone koseirensis), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955), Eritrea (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846, as Belone crocodilus). General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in eastern Pacific. Tylosurus melanotus (Bleeker 1850) Gulf of Suez: ¯ Gulf of Aqaba: ¯ Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Belone appendiculatus). General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Revillagigedo, Clipperton and Cocos islands (eastern Pacific).

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 42-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566