Moronidae Jordan & Evermann 1896
- Dataset
- Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants
- Rank
- FAMILY
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Moronidae
description
Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Steindachner 1895, as Labrax lupus; Gruvel 1936, as Morone labrax). Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Golani & Lerner 2007), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997). Red Sea main basin: ¯ General distribution: Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: Norway and Iceland to Senegal.
description
Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Steindachner 1895, as Labrax orientalis; Ben-Tuvia 1971). Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Ben-Tuvia, 1971). Red Sea main basin: ¯ General distribution: Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic: English Channel to Senegal.
discussion
Remark: Anti-Lessepsian migrant from eastern Mediterranean into Red Sea (see Ben-Tuvia 1971).
discussion
Remark: Originally in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; introduced in the Red Sea. Dicentrarchus punctatus (Bloch 1792)
Name
- Homonyms
- Moronidae Jordan & Evermann 1896