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greenspotted rockfish

Sebastes chlorostictus

Classification

Sebastes chlorostictus, the greenspotted 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 Eastern Pacific. Taxonomy Sebastes chlorostictus was first formally described as Sebastichthys chlorostictus in 1880 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert with the type locality given as Monterey Bay in California, although the type was obtained at a San Francisco fish market.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 155Canada · 5Mexico · 2