Sebastolobus

Sebastolobus is a genus of rockfishes native to the northern and eastern Pacific Ocean. These fish are generally found in deep waters.

Sebastolobus
Longspine thornyhead (S. altivelis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Sebastidae
Genus: Sebastolobus
T. N. Gill, 1881

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[1]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Sebastolobus alascanus T. H. Bean, 1890Shortspine thornyheadPacific Ocean and is known from Canada, Alaska and the Russian Federation.
Sebastolobus altivelis C. H. Gilbert, 1896Longspine thornyheadPacific Ocean and is found from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska to southern Baja California, Mexico.
Sebastolobus macrochir (Günther, 1877)Broadbanded thornyheadSagami Bay, Japan to the southern Kuril Islands and off Sakhalin, Russia

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Sebastolobus in FishBase. December 2012 version.


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