Chanos chanos

3. Chanos chanos (Forsskål, 1775) ―Milkfish― Native Taxonomy. Original description: Mugil chanos Fabricius,1775:74, xiv [Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea (not Mediterranean Sea); Holotype: ZMUC P17154 (dry skin)]. Synonyms: Chanos arabicus Lacepède, 1803. Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Saudi Arabia in original description by Forsskål (1775), subsequently reported from Oman by Esmaeili et al. (2022). General distribution. Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar, Mascarenes and Persian Gulf east to Hawaiian Islands, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia) and Norfolk Island; eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to northern Peru, including Galapagos Islands (Ecuador); Mediterranean Sea immigrant. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine. Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia: coastal area of Jeddah; Oman: Wadi Hasik, Dhofar Governorate, and probably several other coastal area of the Arabian Peninsula. Economic importance. Commercially important. Conservation. Least Concern (LC).Published as part of Esmaeili, Hamid Reza & Hamidan, Neshat, 2023, Inland fishes of the Arabian Peninsula: Review and a revised checklist, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5330 (2) on page 206, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/824931