• Overview
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads; Found in soft bottom areas of the continental shelf and upper slope . Feed on both benthic and pelagic organisms (crustaceans, fishes , cephalopods , and echinoderms )[1]. Viviparous , breed in March - July[2]. Larvae and juveniles are pelagic[1]. Sold fresh[3].

Common Names

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Description

Family Sebastidae

Distribution: Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. The livebearing Sebastes with about 110 species occurs mainly in the North Pacific. Body compressed ; head usually with ridges and spines; gill membranes free from isthmus. Venom gland in dorsal, anal , and pelvic spines.The family Sebastidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes ) and the Order Scorpaeniformes. It contains 4 genera and 128 species. It may be found in Marine environments and is primarily Marine. Members of this family are not used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are bearers. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is balistiform. Compared with other fish, the activity level of this family tends to be sluggish. Etymology of this family name : Greek, sebastes = august, admirable , epithet given to the roman emperor Augustus

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,499 meters (0 to -18,041 feet).[4]

Biome: Saltwater . Bathydemersal .

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Helicolenus dactylopterus (Delaroche, 1809)
2. Helicolenus imperialis (Cuvier, 1829)
3. Helicolenus maculatus (Cuvier, 1829)
4. Helicolenus maderensis (Valenciennes, 1833)
5. Helicolenus thelmae Fowler, 1937
6. Scorpaena dactyloptera Delaroche, 1809
7. Sebastes dactyloptera (Delaroche, 1809)
8. Sebastes imperialis Cuvier, 1829
9. Sebastes maculatus Cuvier, 1829

Similar Species

Members of the genus Helicolenus

There are approximately 24 species in this genus:

H. alporti (Red Gurnard Perch) · H. avius · H. barathri (Bigeye Sea Perch) · H. dactlyopterus · H. dactylopterus (Blackbelly Rosefish) · H. dactylopterus dactylopterus (Blackbelly Rosefish) · H. dactylopterus lahillei · H. dactylrpterus · H. emblemarius · H. fedorovi · H. hilgendorfi · H. hilgendorfii (Hilgendorf´s Saucord) · H. lahillei · H. lengerichi · H. maculatus · H. maderensis · H. microphthalmus · H. mouchezi · H. papillosus · H. percoides (Red Gurnard Scorpionfish) · H. rufescens · H. thelmae · H. tristanensis · H. uruguayensis

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Further Reading

• Bauchot, M.-L. (1987). Poissons osseux. p. 891-1421. In W. Fischer, M.L. Bauchot and M. Schneider (eds.) Fiches FAO d'identification pour les besoins de la pêche. (rev. 1). Méditerranée et mer Noire. Zone de pêche 37. Vol. II. Commission des Communaut
• Bianchi, G. (1986). Fichas FAO de identifacao de espécies para propósitos comerciais. Guia de campo para as espécies comerciais marinhas e de águas salobras de Angola. Preparado com o apoio da NORAD e da FAO (FIRM) Programa Regular, FAO, Rome. 184 p.
• Bianchi, G., K.E. Carpenter, J.-P. Roux, F.J. Molloy, D. Boyer and H.J. Boyer (1993). FAO species identification field guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of Namibia. FAO, Rome. 250 p.
• Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Márquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez (1992). Fichas FAO de identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Guía de campo de las especies comerciales ma
• Eschmeyer, W.N. (1978). Scorpaenidae. In W. Fischer (ed.) FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Western Central Atlantic (Fishing Area 31). Vol. 4. FAO, Rome. pag. var.
• Fischer, W., I. Sousa, C. Silva, A. de Freitas, J.M. Poutiers, W. Schneider, T.C. Borges, J.P. Feral and A. Massinga (1990). Fichas FAO de identificaçao de espécies para actividades de pesca. Guia de campo das espécies comerciais marinhas e de águas salob
• Jonsson, G. (1992). Islenskir fiskar. Fiolvi, Reykjavik, 568 pp.
• Kelly, C.J., P.L. Connolly and J.J. Bracken (1999). Age estimation, growth, maturity and distribution of the bluemouth rockfish Helicolenus d. dactylopterus (Delaroche 1809) from the Rockall Trough. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 56(1):61-74.
• Klein-MacPhee, Grace, and Bruce B. Collette / Collette, Bruce B., and Grace Klein-MacPhee, eds. 2002. Scorpionfishes: Family Scorpaenidae. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Third Edition. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. 331-338. ISBN: 1-56098-951-3.
• Kullander, S.O. (1999). Swedish fishes: checklist of Swedish fishes. Swedish Museum of Natural History. http://www.nrm.se/ve/pisces/allfish.shtml.en, 25 May 1999.
• Maigret, J. and B. Ly (1986). Les poissons de mer de Mauritanie. Science Nat., Compiègne. 213 p.
• Moore, Jon A., Karsten E. Hartel, James E. Craddock, and John K. Galbraith 2003. An annotated list of deepwater fishes from off the New England region, with new area records. Northeastern Naturalist, vol. 10, no. 2. 159-248.
• Nijssen, H. and S.J. de Groot (1974). Catalogue of fish species of the Netherlands. Beaufortia 21(285):173-207.
• Reiner, F. (1996). Catálogo dos peixes do Arquipélago de Cabo Verde. Publicações avulsas do IPIMAR No. 2. 339 p.
• Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p.
• Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al. 1980. A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, Maryland, USA. 174.

Notes

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Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 5, 2007.
• FishBase
• Fricke, Ronald (from FishBase).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 24 providers.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2517640
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-6129
• Fishbase Species ID: 76
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13535507
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 112516

Footnotes

1. Hureau, J.-C. and N.I. Litvinenko (1986). Scorpaenidae. p. 1211-1229. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol 3. [back]
2. Muus, B.J. and J.G. Nielsen (1999). Sea fish. Scandinavian Fishing Year Book, Hedehusene, Denmark. 340 p. [back]
3. Bianchi, G., K.E. Carpenter, J.-P. Roux, F.J. Molloy, D. Boyer and H.J. Boyer (1993). FAO species identification field guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of Namibia. FAO, Rome. 250 p. [back]
4. Mean = -457.230 meters (-1,500.098 feet), Standard Deviation = 789.940 based on 3,395 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]