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Records of the stingfish genus Minous (family Synanceiidae) from the Red Sea are reviewed. Although excluded from the recent checklist of fishes from that region, both Minous inermis Alcock 1889 and Minous trachycephalus (Bleeker 1855) are reported from the Red Sea, on the basis of two and seven voucher specimens, respectively. On the other hand, the record of Minous monodactylus (Bloch and Schneider 1801) from the Red Sea is considered erroneous, the original source of this record having been based on a misidentification of Minous coccineus Alcock 1890. Accordingly, only M. coccineus, M. inermis and M. trachycephalus are confirmed from Red Sea waters.
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We are very grateful to D. Golani (HUJ) for the opportunity to examine specimens, M. Goren (Tel Aviv University) for specimen information and G. Notarbartolo-di-Sciara for a partial translation of Tortonese (1937). The scientific research cooperation between Faculty of Marine Sciences (FMS), King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the Senckenberg Research Institute (SRI), Frankfurt, Germany, in the framework of the Red Sea Biodiversity Project, during which a part of the present material was collected, was funded by KAU GRANT NO. “D/1/432-DSR”. The authors acknowledge, with thanks, KAU and SRI for technical and financial support, as well as A. Al-Aidaroos and M. H. Gabr (KAU), F. Krupp (SRI and Qatar Natural History Museum, Doha), and T. J. Alpermann (SRI) for their considerable assistance. The first author greatly appreciates the hospitality of students and volunteers of the Kagoshima University Museum during his stay at that institution. We also thank G. Hardy (Ngunguru, New Zealand) for reading the manuscript and providing help with English. This study was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP26241027, JP24370041, JP23580259, and JP26450265; a JSPS Fellow grant (PD: 16 J00047); the JSPS Core-to-Core Program, “Research and Education Network on Southeast Asian Coastal Ecosystems”; the “Coastal Area Capability Enhancement in Southeast Asia Project” of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan; the “Biological Properties of Biodiversity Hotspots in Japan” project of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan; and “Establishment of Research and Education Network on Biodiversity and Its Conservation in the Satsunan Islands” project of Kagoshima University, adopted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
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Matsunuma, M., Bogorodsky, S.V., Mal, A.O. et al. Reinstatement of Minous inermis and M. trachycephalus (Synanceiidae) to the checklist of Red Sea fishes, with comments on M. monodactylus . Mar Biodiv 47, 1287–1291 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0716-1
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