Table 2 (continued)
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IV
Cate- Taxon and species
Record of distribution and authority
Synonymy and Remarks
gorya
(species in alphabetical
order)
Mediterranean
SuezCanal
Red Sea and Indo-Pacific
4.2.1
Rhodymenia erythraea
Port Said Harbour
-?Yemen (Zanardini, 1858)
Zanardini
(Aleem, 1948)
Erithrea; Karachi
4.3.2
Sarconema filiforme
Palmahim - Caesarea
-?Yemen, Karachi, Bombay "Tethysrelikt"
(Sond.) Kylin
(Rayss, 1963)
(Rayss, 1963)
4.2.1
Sarconema Jurcellatum
Port Said, Port Fuad
-?Red Sea, Arabian Sea,
Zanardini
(Aleem, 1948)
Ceylon
3.3.1
Solieria dura
BatYam 1957, 1960
Ismailia, Port Taufiq
Yemen, Djibouti
= Rhabdonia dura
~
(Zanardini) Schmitz
(Rayss, 1963)
(Aleem, 1950)
Tethys relict (Not in the
CD
Port Said (Aleem, 1950)
Red Sea
[!?]: Rayss, 1963)
~
4.2.1
Spatoglossum variabile
Port Said - EI Arish
-?Suez, Aqaba, Ethiopia
1·
Figari et de Notaris
(Aleem, 1950)
(Papenfuss, 1968)
-
,Cormophyta
tl:1
2.1.3
Halophila stipulacea
Rhodes 1894 (Fritsch, 1895) 1924 (Fox, 1926)
Gulf of Suez,
Most authors: "Lessepsian
o·
(Forsskäl) Ascherson
W. Egyptian coast
Bitter Lake, Timsah
Gulf ofElat,
migrant"
Si'
(Aleem, 1962)
(Beets, 1953;
Indo-West-Pacific
(Peres, 1967; Por, 1971b:
Aegean Sea (peres, 1967)
Lipkin, 1972a)
"pre-Lessepsian")
Animalia
Porifera
4.2.2
Chrotella cavernosa
Alexandria (Burton, 1936)
-?RedSea,
= Tethya
(Lamarck)
Israel (HUJ collections)
Indo-West-Pacific
= Cinachyra australiensis
Israel coast
"Dominant element in
(Tsumamal, 1969a)
cavems
and nips of Israel
coast" (Tsumamal, 1969a)
3.3.2
Damiriana schmidti
Israel: Mikhmoret
Suez Canal (Tsumamal,
Southem Red Sea
= Crella
(Ridley)
(Tsumamal,1969a)
personalcommunication) (Levi, 1958, 1965)
= Dendoricella
-Hawaii
= D.australiensis
= D.hawaiana