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aurora rockfish

Sebastes aurora

Classification

Sebastes aurora, the aurora rockfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Sebastes aurora was first formally described as Sebastichthys aurora in 1890 by the American ichthyologist Charles Henry Gilbert with the type locality given as Santa Barbara Islands in California.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 298Canada · 201