Sebastes mystinus

• 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 mystinus; Yukon; Baja; Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Milton; Punta Baja; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5603994; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603994

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. 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 110, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008