2463 Author Golani, Daniel Author Bogorodsky, Sergey V. text Zootaxa 2010 2010-05-14 2463 1 135 journal article 1175­5334 Epinephelus merra (Bloch, 1793) This species is absent from the Red Sea ( Heemstra & Randall, 1993 ). Tortonese's (1935 -36) record from Massawa was a misidentification of the E. tauvina (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775 ) (see: Dor, 1984 ).