Published October 19, 2021
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Sebastes melanostomus
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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.