Sebastes aurora
Description
Sebastes aurora (Gilbert, 1890).
Aurora Rockfish. To 41 cm (16 in) TL (Kramer and O’Connell 1995). Southeast Alaska (about 55°56’N, 135°26’W) (Laman and Orr 2011) to Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Kramer and O’Connell 1995). Larvae have been taken off Banco Thetis (24°40’N, 112°18’W), southern Baja California (Moser et al. 1985), strongly implying that this species lives considerably farther south than its southernmost adult record. While Nelson et al. (2004) notes that records of this species from off Baja California may be based on errors in field identification, the presence of Sebastes aurora larvae many hundreds of miles below the U.S. – Mexico border strongly suggests the presence of adult fish in Mexican waters. If the species is not found in Mexican waters, the southernmost range is San Diego, southern California (Phillips 1957). Benthic; depth: 81–1,176 m (266–3,857 ft) (min.: Wilkins et al. 1998; max.: NWFSC-FRAM).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sebastidae
- Genus
- Sebastes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gilbert
- Species
- aurora
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sebastes aurora (Gilbert, 1890) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- Laman, E. A. & Orr, J. W. (2011) First record of an aurora rockfish, Sebastes aurora, from Alaskan waters. Northwestern Naturalist, 92, 230 - 232. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 1051 - 1733 - 92.3.230
- Moser, H. G., Sandknop, E. M. & Ambrose, D. A. (1985) Larvae and juveniles of aurora rockfish, Sebastes aurora, from off California and Baja California. In: Kendall Jr, A. W. & Marliave, J. B. (Eds.), Descriptions of Early Life History Stages of Selected Fishes. Third International Symposium on the Early Life History of Fishes. Canadian Technical Report Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 1359, pp. 55 - 64.
- Phillips, J. B. (1957) A review of the rockfishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 104.
- Wilkins, M. E., Zimmermann, M. & Weinberg, K. L. (1998) The 1995 Pacific West Coast bottom trawl survey of groundfish resources: Estimates of distribution, abundance, and length and age composition. NOAA Technical Memorandum, NMFS - AFSC - 89.