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Sebastes melanostictus

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Description

Sebastes melanostictus (Matsubara, 1934).

Blackspotted Rockfish. To at least 78 cm (30.7 in) FL (Keller et al. 2016); 79.9 cm (31.5 in) TL based on conversion factors provided by James Orr. Pacific coast of Japan, at about 35°N, north through the Kuril Islands, Aleutian Islands, and the Bering Sea to 60°30’N, and southward to southern California on Coronado Bank (at 32°36’N) (Orr and Hawkins 2008). Benthic; depth: at least 25–1,000 m (82–3,280 ft) (min.: Orlov and Tokranov 2019; max.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington). This species and S. aleutianus have only recently been recognized as distinct and thus it is not possible to use older estimates of maximum size, as well as geographic and depth ranges.

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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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFFDFFD998EAF9C4F9743748

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/03BE87D6FFFDFFD998EAF9C4F9743748 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191882901 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FFFDFFD998EAF9C4F9743748.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Sebastidae
Genus
Sebastes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Scorpaeniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Matsubara
Species
melanostictus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sebastes melanostictus (Matsubara, 1934) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Keller, A., Cope, J., Elz, A., Frey, P., Harms, J., Hicks, A., Orr, J., Park, L. & Tuttle, V. (2016) Genetic analysis to reduce uncertainty in the assessment of morphologically similar West Coast groundfishes. Poster. 2016 Western Groundfish Conference, Newport, Oregon.
  • Orr, J. W. & Hawkins, S. (2008) Species of the rougheye rockfish complex: resurrection of Sebastes melanostictus (Matsubara, 1934) and a redescription of Sebastes aleutianus (Jordan and Evermann, 1898) (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes). Fishery Bulletin, 106, 111 - 134.
  • 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