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Sebastes borealis Barsukov 1970

Description

Sebastes borealis Barsukov, 1970.

Shortraker Rockfish. To 120 cm (47.2 in) TL (Novikov 1974). Sea of Okhotsk, Pacific Ocean off northern Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, and western Bering Sea (Tokranov and Davydov 1998), to Navarin Canyon and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Point Conception, California (Allen and Smith 1988). A juvenile specimen (Personal communication: University of Alaska Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska) taken in the Bering Strait southwest of Cape Prince of Wales (65°21’N, 168°18’W), examined by both Lloyd Chen and Catherine Mecklenburg, may be this species. Benthic; depth: 25–1,200 m (82–3,937 ft) (min.: Allen and Smith 1988; max.: Sheiko and Fedorov 2000); also reported at surface (Orlov and Tokranov 2019), but without documentation.

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 106, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Novikov, N. P. (1974) Commercial Fishes of the Continental Slope of the Northern Part of the Pacific Ocean. Pishchevaya Promyshlennost', Moscow [Cited in Tokranov and Davydov 1998.]
  • Tokranov, A. M. & Davydov, I. I. (1998) Some aspects of biology of the shortraker rockfish Sebastes borealis (Scorpaenidae) in the Pacific waters of Kamchatka and western part of the Bering Sea: 2. Size and age composition. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 37 - 41.
  • Allen, M. J. & Smith, G. B. (1988) Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 66.
  • Sheiko, B. A. & Fedorov, V. V. (2000) Chapter 1. Class Cephalaspidomorphi - Lampreys. Class Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes. Class Holocephali - Chimaeras. Class Osteichthyes - Bony fishes. In: Catalog of Vertebrates of Kamchatka and Adjacent Waters. Kamchatsky Pechatny Dvor, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, pp. 7 - 69 [In Russian.]
  • Orlov, A. M. & Tokranov, A. M. (2019) Checklist of deep-sea fishes of the Russian northwestern Pacific Ocean found at depths below 1000 m. Progress in Oceanography, 176, https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102143