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Sebastes melanops Girard 1856
Description
Sebastes melanops Girard, 1856.
Black Rockfish. To 69 cm (27.2 in) TL (Butler et al. 2012). Southern Bering Sea (Orr and Blackburn 2004) and Rat Island, Aleutian Islands (Brenda Konar, pers. comm. to M.L.) to northern Baja California (Kramer and O’Connell 1995). Depth: surface to 366 m (1,200 ft) (min.: Kramer and O’Connell 1995; 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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sebastidae
- Genus
- Sebastes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- melanops
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sebastes melanops Girard, 1856 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Butler, J., Love, M. S. & Laidig, T. E. (2012) A Guide to the Rockfishes, Thornyheads, and Scorpionfishes of the Northeastern Pacific. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Orr, J. W. & Blackburn, J. E. (2004) The dusky rockfishes (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes) of the North Pacific Ocean: resurrection of Sebastes variabilis (Pallas, 1814) and a redescription of Sebastes ciliatus (Tilesius, 1813). Fishery Bulletin, 102, 328 - 348.
- Kramer, D. E. & O'Connell, V. M. (1995) Guide to northeast Pacific rockfishes genera Sebastes and Sebastolobus. University of Alaska Sea Grant, Fairbanks, Marine Advisory Bulletin, No. 25.
- 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.