Sebastes melanostomus

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Scorpaeniformes; Sebastidae; Sebastes; Sebastes melanostomus; Yukon; Baja; Milton; Moser; Workman; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5603988; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603988

Sebastes melanostomus (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1890). Blackgill Rockfish. To 61 cm (24 in) TL (Phillips 1957). Northern British Columbia off west coast of Haida Gwaii (Workman et al. 1998) to Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Miller and Lea 1972). Pelagic juveniles have been taken as far south as Punta Abreojos (26°06’N, 114°05’W), southern Baja California (Moser and Ahlstrom 1978), strongly implying that adults live in southern Baja California. Benthic; depth: 88–768 m (289–2,520 ft) (min.: NWFSC-FRAM; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). 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