Sebastes

Sebastes is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae part of the family Scorpaenidae, most of which have the common name of rockfish. A few are called ocean perch, sea perch or redfish instead. They are found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Taxonomy

Sebastes was first described as a genus in 1829 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier, the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker designated Perca norvegica, which may have been originally described by the Norwegian zoologist Peter Ascanius in 1772, as the type species in 1876. The genus is the type genus of both the tribe Sebastini and the subfamily Sebastinae, although some authorities treat these as the subfamily Sebastinae and the family Sebastidae, separating the Sebastidae as a distinct family from the Scorpaenidae. Other authorities place it in the Perciformes in the suborder Scorpaenoidei.
Some authorities subdivide this large genus into subgenera as follows:

Sebastes Cuvier, 1829
* S. fasciatus
* S. mentella
* S. norvegicus
* S. viviparus
Acutomentum Eigenmann & Beeson, 1893
* S. alutus
* S. baramenuke
* S. brevispinis
* S. entomelas
* S. flammeus
* S. hopkinsi
* S. iracundus
* S. kiyomatsui
* S. macdonaldi
* S. minor
* S. ovalis
* S. rufus
* S. scythropus
* S. wakiyai
Allosebastes Hubbs, 1951
* S. cortezi
* S. diploproa
* S. emphaeus
* S. peduncularis
* S. proriger
* S. rufinanus
* S. saxicola
* S. semicinctus
* S. sinensis
* S. variegatus
* S. varispinis
* S. wilsoni
* S. zacentrus
Auctospina Eigenmann & Beeson 1893
* S. auriculatus
* S. dallii
Emmelas Jordan & Evermann 1898
* S. glaucus
Eosebastes Jordan & Evermann, 1896
* S. aurora
* S. crameri
* S. melanosema
* S. melanostomus
Hatumeus Matsubara, 1943
* S. owstoni
Hispaniscus Jordan & Evermann, 1896
* S. elongatus
* S. levis
* S. rubrivinctus
Mebarus Matsubara 1943
* S. atrovirens
* S. cheni
* S. inermis
* S. joyneri
* S. taczanowskii
* S. thompsoni
* S. ventricosus
Murasoius Matsubara 1943
* S. nudus
* S. pachycephalus
Neohispaniscus Matsubara 1943
* S. schlegelii
* S. vulpes
* S. zonatus
Pteropodus Eigenmann & Beeson, 1893
* S. carnatus
* S. caurinus
* S. chrysomelas
* S. hubbsi
* S. longispinis
* S. maliger
* S. nebulosus
* S. nivosus
* S. rastrelliger
* S. trivittatus
Rosicola Jordan & Evermann, 1896
* S. babcocki
* S. miniatus
* S. pinniger
Sebastichthys Gill, 1862
* S. nigrocinctus
Sebastocarus Jordan & Evermann, 1927
* S. serriceps
Sebastodes Gill, 1861
* S. goodei
* S. itinus
* S. jordani
* S. paucispinis
* S. steindachneri
Sebastomus Gill, 1864
* S. capensis
* S. chlorostictus
* S. constellatus
* S. ensifer
* S. eos
* S. exsul
* S. helvomaculatus
* S. lentiginosus
* S. notius
* S. oculatus
* S. rosaceus
* S. rosenblatti
* S. serranoides
* S. simulator
* S. spinorbis
* S. umbrosus
Sebastopyr Jordan & Evermann, 1927
* S. ruberrimus
Sebastosomus Gill, 1864
* S. ciliatus
* S. diaconus
* S. flavidus
* S. melanops
* S. mystinus
* S. variabilis
Takenokius Matsubara, 1943
* S. oblongus
Zalopyr Jordan & Evermann, 1898
* S. aleutianus
* S. borealis
* S. matsubarae
* S. melanostictus
Incertae sedis
* S. gilli
* S. koreanus
* S. moseri
* S. phillipsi
* S. polyspinis
* S. reedi

The genus name is derived from the Greek Sebastos, an honorific used in ancient Greek for the Roman imperial title of Augustus, an allusion to the old name for S. norvegicus on Ibiza, its type locality, which Cuvier translated as "august" or "venerable".
The fossil record of rockfish goes back to the Miocene, with unequivocal whole body fossils and otoliths from California and Japan.

Species

Sebastes contains 109 recognized extant species in this genus are:

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Sebastes aleutianus	rougheye rockfish	North Pacific
	Sebastes alutus	Pacific Ocean perch	North Pacific
	Sebastes atrovirens	kelp rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes auriculatus	brown rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes aurora	aurora rockfish	North Pacific
	Sebastes babcocki	redbanded rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes baramenuke		Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes borealis	shortraker rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes brevispinis	silvergray rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes capensis	Cape redfish	Western coast of South Africa, Tristan da Cunha and southern South America,
	Sebastes carnatus	gopher rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes caurinus	copper rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes cheni	Japanese white seaperch or Japanese blue seaperch	Northwest Pacific
	Sebastes chlorostictus	greenspotted rockfish	Eastern Pacific.
	Sebastes chrysomelas	black-and-yellow rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes ciliatus	dusky rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes constellatus	starry rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes cortezi	Cortez rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes crameri	darkblotched rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes dallii	calico rockfish	Eastern central Pacific.
	Sebastes diaconus	deacon rockfish	Northern California to southern British Columbia.
	Sebastes diploproa	splitnose rockfish	Northeast Pacific
	Sebastes elongatus	greenstriped rockfish	Northeast Pacific
	Sebastes emphaeus	Puget Sound rockfish	Pacific Ocean
	Sebastes ensifer	swordspine rockfish	Central Pacific
	Sebastes entomelas	widow rockfish	Western North America from Alaska to Baja California.
	Sebastes eos	pink rockfish	Monterey Bay in California, USA to central Baja California, Mexico
	Sebastes exsul	buccaneer rockfish	Central Pacific: western Gulf of California.
	Sebastes fasciatus	Acadian redfish	Northwestern Atlantic Ocean and its range extends from Virginia, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia, western Greenland and Iceland
	Sebastes flammeus		Northwest Pacific.
	Sebastes flavidus	Yellowtail rockfish	San Diego, California, to Kodiak Island, Alaska
	Sebastes gilli	Bronzespotted rockfish	Monterey Bay in California, USA to northern Baja California, Mexico.
	Sebastes glaucus	Gray rockfish	Northwest Pacific
	Sebastes goodei	chilipepper rockfish	Western North America from Baja California to Vancouver.
	Sebastes helvomaculatus	rosethorn rockfish	Eastern Pacific.
	Sebastes hopkinsi	squarespot rockfish	Eastern Pacific.
	Sebastes hubbsi		Northwest Pacific
	Sebastes ijimae		Japan and South Korea.
	Sebastes inermis	Japanese red seaperch	Coasts of Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
	Sebastes iracundus		Northwest Pacific.
	Sebastes itinus		Japan.
	Sebastes jordani	shortbelly rockfish	Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada to northern Baja California, Mexico
	Sebastes joyneri	Togot seaperch, or offshore seaperch	Japan and Korea
	Sebastes kiyomatsui		Japan.
	Sebastes koreanus		Korea.
	Sebastes lentiginosus	freckled rockfish	Santa Catalina Island in southern California, USA to northern Baja California
	Sebastes levis	cowcod	Southern California
	Sebastes longispinis		Japan and South Korea.
	Sebastes macdonaldi	Mexican rockfish	California, USA to southern Baja California, Mexico and the Gulf of California
	Sebastes maliger	quillback rockfish	Pacific coast from the Gulf of Alaska to the northern Channel Islands of Southern California.
	Sebastes matsubarai		Northern Japan.
	Sebastes melanops	black rockfish	Oregon, California, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska
	Sebastes melanosema	semaphore rockfish	Southern California, USA to central Baja California, Mexico.
	Sebastes melanostictus	blackspotted rockfish	North Pacific.
	Sebastes melanostomus	blackgill rockfish	Washington, USA to central Baja California, Mexico.
	Sebastes mentella	deepwater redfish	North Atlantic
	Sebastes miniatus	vermilion rockfish	North America from Baja California to Alaska.
	Sebastes minor		Hokkaido, Japan to Sakhalin, Primorskii Krai, and the southern Kuril Islands.
	Sebastes moseri	whitespeckled rockfish	Northeast Pacific.
	Sebastes mystinus	blue rockfish	northeastern Pacific Ocean, ranging from northern Baja California to central Oregon.
	Sebastes nebulosus	China rockfish	Kachemak Bay in the northern Gulf of Alaska to Redondo Beach and San Nicolas Island in southern California.
	Sebastes nigrocinctus	tiger rockfish	Pacific Ocean off Kodiak Island, and from Prince William Sound, Alaska, south to Point Buchon, central California.
	Sebastes nivosus
	Sebastes norvegicus	golden redfish	North Atlantic.
	Sebastes notius		Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
	Sebastes nudus		Japan and South Korea.
	Sebastes oblongus	Bamboo shoot seaperch, Tortoiseshell perch	Japan and South Korea.
	Sebastes oculatus	Patagonian redfish	Southeast Pacific and Southwest Atlantic: Chile, Argentina, and the Falkland Islands.
	Sebastes ovalis	speckled rockfish	Eastern Pacific
	Sebastes owstoni	Japanese yellow seaperch	Japan to Primorskii Krai, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the North Korea
	Sebastes pachycephalus		Northwest Pacific
	Sebastes paucispinis	Bocaccio rockfish	Stepovak Bay, Alaska to central Baja California
	Sebastes peduncularis		Eastern Central Pacific.
	Sebastes phillipsi	chameleon rockfish	Monterey Bay to Newport Beach in southern California, USA.
	Sebastes pinniger	canary rockfish	south of Shelikof Strait in the eastern Gulf of Alaska to Punta Colonet in northern Baja California.
	Sebastes polyspinis	northern rockfish	North Pacific.
	Sebastes proriger	redstripe rockfish	Bering Sea and Amchitka Island in the Aleutian chain to San Diego, California
	Sebastes rastrelliger	grass rockfish	Eastern Pacific
	Sebastes reedi	yellowmouth rockfish	Eastern Pacific.
	Sebastes rosaceus	rosy rockfish	Eastern Pacific
	Sebastes rosenblatti	greenblotched rockfish	San Francisco in California, USA to central Baja California, Mexico.
	Sebastes ruberrimus	yelloweye rockfish	East Pacific and range from Baja California to Dutch harbor in Alaska
	Sebastes rubrivinctus	flag rockfish	California and Baja California
	Sebastes rufinanus	dwarf red rockfish	eastern central Pacific, especially around San Clemente Island off the coast of southern California
	Sebastes rufus	bank rockfish	Fort Bragg in northern California, USA to central Baja California and Guadalupe Island in Mexico.
	Sebastes saxicola	stripetail rockfish	Yakutat Bay, Alaska to Rompiente Point, Baja California, Mexico.
	Sebastes schlegelii	Korean rockfish	Northern Asia.
	Sebastes scythropus		Japan.
	Sebastes semicinctus	halfbanded rockfish	Eastern Central Pacific
	Sebastes serranoides	olive rockfish	Eastern Pacific.
	Sebastes serriceps	treefish	eastern Pacific Ocean with a range from San Francisco, California to central Baja California, Mexico.
	Sebastes simulator	pinkrose rockfish	San Pedro in southern California, USA to Guadalupe Island in Mexico.
	Sebastes sinensis	blackmouth rockfish	Gulf of California.
	Sebastes spinorbis		Eastern Central Pacific.
	Sebastes steindachneri		Northern Japan to the southern Kuril Islands, the northern Sea of Japan, and the Sea of Okhotsk. Reported from South Korea
	Sebastes taczanowskii	white-edged rockfish	Northwest Pacific coast
	Sebastes thompsoni		Northern Japan
	Sebastes trivittatus	threestripe rockfish	Japan and Korea.
	Sebastes umbrosus	honeycomb rockfish	Point Pinos, Monterey County in central California, USA to southern central Baja California, Mexico.
	Sebastes variabilis	light dusky rockfish	Japan, east coast of Kamchatka to Cape Ol'utorskii in western Bering Sea, along the Aleutian Islands in the eastern Bering Sea, through the Gulf of Alaska south to Johnstone Strait, British Columbia and to central Oregon.
	Sebastes variegatus	harlequin rockfish	Bowers Bank and Petrel Bank in the Aleutian chain to Newport, Oregon, USA.
	Sebastes varispinis		Eastern Central Pacific.
	Sebastes ventricosus	Japanese black seaperch	Northwest Pacific
	Sebastes viviparus	Norway redfish	Norwegian coast from Kattegat to Tanafjord in Finnmark, rare off Bear Island, northern part of North Sea, around Shetland Islands, Scotland, northern England, Wales and Ireland, rare in the English Channel; Rockall Bank, common around Faroes and Iceland; sporadic off East Greenland.
	Sebastes vulpes	fox jacopever	Japan and Korea.
	Sebastes wakiyai		Japan and South Korea
	Sebastes wilsoni	pygmy rockfish	East Pacific, for the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California, Mexico.
	Sebastes zacentrus	sharpchin rockfish	Semisopochnoi Island in the Aleutian chain to San Diego, California, USA.
	Sebastes zonatus		Japan and South Korea