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Xenisthmidae Miller 1973

Description

XENISTHMIDAE

* Gymnoxenisthmus tigrellus Gill, Bogorodsky & Mal 2014

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Gill et al. 2014).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Xenisthmus balius Gill & Randall 1994

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gill et al. 2017).

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Gill et al. 2017).

Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Gill et al. 2017), Saudi Arabia (Gill et al. 2017).

General distribution: Red Sea, northwestern Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf.

* Xenisthmus oligoporus Gill, Bogorodsky & Mal 2017

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: ¯

Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Gill et al. 2017).

General distribution: Red Sea endemic.

Xenisthmus polyzonatus (Klunzinger 1871)

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Gill et al. 2017).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Eleotris polyzonatus), Eritrea (Gill et al. 2017), Saudi Arabia (Gill et al. 2017).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: Maldives east to Northern Marianas, Tonga, Samoa and Marquesas Islands.

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 pages 165-166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Xenisthmidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Miller
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Xenisthmidae Miller, 1973 sec. Golani & Fricke, 2018

References

  • Gill, A. C., Bogorodsky, S. V. & Mal, A. O. (2014) Gymnoxenisthmus tigrellus, new genus and species of gobioid fish from the Red Sea (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae). Zootaxa, 3755 (5), 491 - 495. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3755.5.9
  • Gill, A. C. & Randall, J. E. (1994) Xenisthmus balius, a new species of fish from the Persian Gulf (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 107 (3), 445 - 450.
  • Gill, A. C., Bogorodsky, S. V. & Mal, A. O. (2017) Review of Red Sea Xenisthmus Snyder (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa, 4286 (2), 203 - 214. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4286.2.4
  • Klunzinger, C. B. (1871) Synopsis der Fische des Rothen Meeres. II. Theil. Verhandlungen der K. - K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 21, 441 - 688.