Epinephelus caeruleopunctatus (Bloch, 1790)

Golani, Daniel & Bogorodsky, Sergey V., 2010, 2463, Zootaxa 2463, pp. 1-135 : 66

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scientific name

Epinephelus caeruleopunctatus (Bloch, 1790)
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This species does not occur in the Red Sea. Tortonese's (1935 -36) record from Massawa was a misidentification of the Red Sea endemic E. summana (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775) (see: Heemstra & Randall, 1993).

Heemstra, P. C. & Randall, J. E. (1993) FAO species catalogue. Vol. 16. Groupers of the world. (Family Serranidae, subfamily Epinephelinae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the groupers, rockcod hind, coral grouper and lyretail species known to date. FAO Fisheris Synopsis, 125 (16), 1 - 382 + 31 pl.

Niebuhr, C. (1775) Descriptiones Animalium; Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium, quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit. Petrus Forskal. Prof. Haun. Post mortem auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est material medica Kahirina atque tabula maris rubris geographica, 20 + XXXIV + 164 pp., 1 map; Hauniae, Copenhagen (Moller).

Tortonese, E. (1935 - 36 [1937]) Pesci del mar Rosso. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia e di Anatomia Comparata della R. Universita di Torino, 45 (63), 153 - 218.