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Gobiesocidae

Description

GOBIESOCIDAE

* Lepadichthys erythraeus Briggs & Link 1963

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Craig et al. 2015).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Craig et al. 2015).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Briggs & Link 1963), Saudi Arabia (Craig et al. 2015).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Lepadichthys lineatus Briggs 1966

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Debelius 2007, as Discotrema lineata), Israel (Briggs 1966).

Red Sea main basin: ¯

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Myanmar, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.

Notes

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Gobiesocidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Briggs, J. C. & Link, G. (1963) New clingfishes of the genus Lepadichthys from the northern Indian Ocean and Red Sea (Pisces, Gobiesocidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 44 (2), 101 - 105.
  • Craig, M. T., Bogorodsky, S. V., Randall, J. E. & Mal, A. O. (2015) Lepadichthys bilineatus, a new species of clingfish from Oman (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae), with a redescription of Lepadichthys erythraeus Briggs and Link from the Red Sea. Zootaxa, 3990 (1), 113 - 122. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3990.1.6
  • Briggs, J. C. (1966) A new clingfish of the genus Lepadichthys from the Red Sea. (Contribution to the knowledge of the Red Sea, no. 35). Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Sea Fisheries Research Station Haifa, 42, 37 - 40.
  • Debelius, H. (2007) Red Sea reef guide. Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Arabian Peninsula. Richmond, Surrey, Circle, 1 - 321.