Also recorded from the Iranian Gulf (Heding, 1940). [details]
Colour in life: grey-green with deep, mostly transverse, folding above, below pinkish overall most obviously ... [details]
Holotype in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type locality: The Abular, Red Sea (Rowe & ... [details]
In most of the literature before 1995 S. herrmanni is cited as S. variegatus Semper, 1868, a name no longer valid. ... [details]
Based on comparison of original descriptions and re-examination of type specimens (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Reef flat of Aqaba, on Sargassum eulifera, Red Sea (Cherbonnier, 1979). [details]