TABLE 1. The eight richest families with more than 11 in An updated checklist of bony fishes from the Persian Gulf

<p><b>TABLE 1.</b> The eight richest families with more than 11 species of bony fishes in the Persian Gulf.</p><table><tbody><tr><th>Gobiidae</th><th>Carangidae</th><th>Labridae</th><th>Apogonidae</th><th>Blennidae</th><th>Sparidae Pomacentridae</th><th>Epinephelidae Reference</th></tr></tbody><tbody><tr><th>49</th><td>40</td><td>20</td><td>18</td><td>16</td><td>14</td><td>11</td><td>12</td><td>Present study</td></tr><tr><th>14</th><td>40</td><td>15</td><td>19</td><td>20</td><td>11</td><td>18</td><td>0</td><td>(Carpenter <i>et al</i>.1997)</td></tr><tr><th>52</th><td>50</td><td>23</td><td>26</td><td>26</td><td>15</td><td>24</td><td>0</td><td>(Valinassab &amp; Sedghi Marouf 2013)</td></tr><tr><th>53</th><td>48</td><td>41</td><td>32</td><td>34</td><td>18</td><td>20</td><td>0</td><td>(Owfi 2015)</td></tr><tr><th>65</th><td>45</td><td>20</td><td>25</td><td>23</td><td>16</td><td>20</td><td>0</td><td>(Eagderi <i>et al</i>. 2019)</td></tr></tbody></table>