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Sebastes melanostictus (Matsubara, 1934)

Blackspotted rockfish
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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea to 60.5°N.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Orr, J.W. and S. Hawkins, 2008
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Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinônimos | Catalog of Fishes(Gênero, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfishes) > Sebastidae (Rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads) > Sebastinae
Etymology: Sebastes: Greek, sebastes = august, venerable (Ref. 45335);  melanostictus: Greek, melas = black + Greek, stiktos = spotted or dappled; alluding to the spotted body coloration (Ref.87139)..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

marinhas bentopelágico; intervalo de profundidade 84 - 1000 m (Ref. 87139), usually 350 - 450 m (Ref. 87139).   Subtropical

Distribuição Países | Áreas da FAO | Ecossistemas | Ocorrências | Point map | Introduções | Faunafri

Pacific: from Japan (about 35°N), north through the Kuril Is., Aleutian Is., and the Bering Sea to 60.5°N; south to southern California on Coronado Bank, at 32.6°N.

Comprimento de primeira maturação / Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Maturity: Lm 45.3, range 42 - 51 cm
Max length : 53.9 cm SL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 87139)

Descrição suscinta Chaves de identificação | Morfologia | Morfometria

Espinhos dorsais (total) : 12 - 14; Raios dorsais (total) : 12 - 15; Espinhos anais: 3; Raios anais : 7 - 8; Vértebras: 26 - 27. Head spines, 8; infraorbital spines, 2 or more; body coloration generally dusky with faint mottling on dorsum; spinous dorsal-fin and rest of body often spotted; dorsal-fin spine 1 longer, 1.0 to 1.8 times into orbit length, 5.9-9.6% SL; dorsal-fin spine 4 longer, 12.0-18.4% SL; gill rakers longer, 3.9-7.1% SL and more numerous in comparison to S. aleutianus. Genetically, with the protein variants ACP*46, either IDDH*500 or *750 or both, either PGM-2*83 or *74 or both, and XO*109 (Hawkins et al., 2005); homozygosity at microsatellite allele ?Sma6*177 (Gharrett et al., 2005, 2006); and mitochondrial haplotype A of Gharrett et al. (2005, 2006) (Ref.87139).

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Orr, J.W. and S. Hawkins, 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). Fish. Bull. 106(2):111-134. (Ref. 87139)

Status na Lista Vermelha da UICN (Ref. 130435)

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