Abstract
A male specimen of the paedomorphic fish Schindleria sp. was collected by plankton net, in February 2005, from a reef lagoon from Hurghada on the Egyptian coast of the northern Red Sea. This is the first record of the Schindleriidae in the Red Sea. (c) 2008 The Authors Journal compilation (c) 2008 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles.