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Sebastes melanostomus

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Description

Sebastes melanostomus (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1890).

Blackgill Rockfish. To 61 cm (24 in) TL (Phillips 1957). Northern British Columbia off west coast of Haida Gwaii (Workman et al. 1998) to Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Miller and Lea 1972). Pelagic juveniles have been taken as far south as Punta Abreojos (26°06’N, 114°05’W), southern Baja California (Moser and Ahlstrom 1978), strongly implying that adults live in southern Baja California. Benthic; depth: 88–768 m (289–2,520 ft) (min.: NWFSC-FRAM; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 109, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFFDFFD898EAF8A4FBD030D0

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FFFDFFD898EAF8A4FBD030D0 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191882912 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FFFDFFD898EAF8A4FBD030D0.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Sebastidae
Genus
Sebastes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Scorpaeniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Eigenmann & Eigenmann
Species
melanostomus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sebastes melanostomus (Eigenmann, 1890) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Phillips, J. B. (1957) A review of the rockfishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 104.
  • Workman, G. D., Olsen, N. & Kronlund, A. R. (1998) Results from a bottom trawl survey of rockfish stocks off the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, September 5 to 23, 1997. Canadian MS Report Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2457.
  • Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
  • Moser, H. G. & Ahlstrom, E. H. (1978) Larvae and pelagic juveniles of blackgill rockfish, Sebastes melanostomus, taken in midwater trawls off southern California and Baja California. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 35, 981 - 996.
  • Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.