A reference to the fishes and shrimp of Saudi waters
448 documented terminal taxa — 447 species and 1 subspecies — in 93 families, each with a permanent identifier and one record: the full taxonomic hierarchy, verified local names where recorded, plates cleared for display and measured specimen lengths where they exist, and a source card for every section.
Scope: the fishes are the species documented by a photographed or measured specimen in the Saudi territorial waters of the Red Sea, per the survey of the Marine Research Centre, Jeddah (1st ed., 2011). The 9 shrimp species in 1 family are not from that survey: they are documented from the published sources cited on their own pages. Not a checklist of all Red Sea fishes. Source layers →
93families
447documented species
1documented subspecies
684plates cleared for display (of 831 registered)
237records with a verified Red Sea local name
93records with a verified Gulf local name
165records with a national code (164 distinct numbers)
Red Sea439 documented fish taxa in 92 families, from the survey of Saudi Red Sea waters, and 9 shrimp species in 1 family, from the published sources cited on their pages; 237 of the 448 records carry a verified local name recorded for the Red Sea.
Arabian Gulf93 records carry a verified local name recorded for the Arabian Gulf. A recorded name is not documentation that the species occurs there: no distribution record is published yet, and the distribution statements quoted on some pages are not distribution records.
Largest families
All familiesFrom the register
Species
447 species and 1 subspecies, each with a stable identifier and a page of its own.
Families
93 families, with their approved Arabic names where approved, and their member lists.
Orders
The published orders, with the families under each and the number of documented taxa.
Crustaceans
Crustaceans in the register: what is published and what is not yet, stated as it is.
Scientific index
Every species in alphabetical order of its scientific name, A to Z.
Arabic name index
The local Arabic names recorded for the Red Sea and the Gulf, in alphabetical order.
Code index
The national codes in ascending order, each with its species.
Compare two species
Two species compared axis by axis, each statement keeping its source.
Source layers
The sources the register rests on, and how much each one carries.
Scientific foundation
The purpose, method, geographic scope, source model and citation guidance.
Content and image rights
What may be reused, and what remains with its rightsholders.
What this encyclopedia holds, and what it does not
Published facts rest on 74 of the register's 131 sources — kinds: Website (39), External database or API (13), Journal article (13), Book (5), Government document (2), Report (1), Scientific paper (1); years of publication: 1948 / 1971 / 1972 / 1973 / 1974 / 1981 / 1982 / 1983 / 1989 / 1992 / 2005 / 2011 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023 / 2024 / 2025 / 2026. None of the others supports a published fact: 11 of them support draft, unpublished content, and others support names or establish image rights. A citation is not scientific approval — this material has not been through scientific review. No occurrence record is published yet: the registry holds 467 distribution records for 180 taxa, none of them verified, so no species page shows a distribution record. The distribution statements on 9 species pages are quoted from the sources cited beside them; they are not distribution records. Conservation assessments number 0. A local name is recorded with the coast it is used on — evidence about the name, not about where the animal occurs. A missing value is shown as missing and is never filled with a plausible one.