Sites of previous records of Distaplia stylifera: 1) Red Sea, Kowalevsky 1874 (type locality). Indo-Pacific, 2) Brewin (1953). 3) Millar 1963 (1966); 4) Millar (1975); 5) Kott 1990 (2002); 6) Monniot and Monniot (2001); 7) Monniot (2012); 8) Shenkar (2012); 9) Lee et al. (2016). Mediterranean, 10) Pérès (1956). Western Atlantic Ocean, 11) Van Name (1921, 1945); 12) Monniot and Monniot (1984, Monniot 1988); 13) Cole and Lambert (2009); 14) Rocha et al. (2010); 15) Villalobos et al. (2017); 16) Rocha et al. (2011); 17) Streit et al. (2021); 18) Dias et al. (2013). Eastern Pacific Ocean, 19) present study. The type locality in the Red Sea and the record of the present study are indicated with stars.