Sebastes mystinus
Description
Sebastes mystinus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1881).
Blue Rockfish. The maximum size and geographic and depth ranges of this species are unclear due to previous confusion with Sebastes diaconus and S. ciliatus. Thus the values presented here should be regarded as tentative. To at least 38.5 cm (15.2 in) TL (Schmidt 2014), but perhaps to 53.3 cm (21 in) TL (Phillips 1957). At least central Oregon (44.5°N) to northern Baja California (32.5°N) (Frable et al. 2015), and probably to just south of Punta Baja (29°54’42”N, 115°49’W), northern Baja California (Klingbeil and Knaggs 1976). Records from Alaska (i.e., Chatham Strait and Kruzof Island, south-eastern Alaska and perhaps Elfin Cove, south-eastern Alaska (Love et al. 2005)) are likely S. diaconus. It is likely that all “Blue Rockfish” from the Bering Sea and the western Gulf of Alaska refer to S. ciliatus (referred to as Dusky Rockfish in Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: surface to at least 156 m (512 ft) (M.L., unpubl. data), and probably including the intertidal (Moring 1972); a record of about 549 m (1,800 ft) (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) seems anomalously deep and is without documentation.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sebastidae
- Genus
- Sebastes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & Gilbert
- Species
- mystinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sebastes mystinus (Jordan, 1881) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Schmidt, K. T. (2014) Life History Changes in Female Blue Rockfish, Sebastes mystinus, Before and After Overfishing, in Central California. Masters Thesis, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.
- Phillips, J. B. (1957) A review of the rockfishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 104.
- Frable, B. W., Wagman, D. W., Frierson, T. N., Aquilar, A. & Sidlauskas, B. L. (2015) A new species of Sebastes (Scorpaeniformes: Sebastidae) from the northeastern Pacific, with a redescription of the blue rockfish, S. mystinus (Jordan and Gilbert, 1881). Fishery Bulletin, 113, 355 - 377. https: // doi. org / 10.7755 / fb. 113.4.1
- Klingbeil, R. A. & Knaggs, E. H. (1976) Southern range extensions of the blue rockfish, Sebastes mystinus; the flag rockfish, S. rubrivinctus; and the shortbelly rockfish, S. jordani. California Fish and Game, 62, 160.
- Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.
- Moring, J. R. (1972) Check list of intertidal fishes of Trinidad Bay, California, and adjacent areas. California Fish and Game, 58, 315 - 320.
- 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.