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Sebastes melanostictus

Sebastes melanostictus

Classification

Sebastes melanostictus, the blackspotted 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 northern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Sebastes melanostictus was first formally described in 1934 as Sebastodes melanostictus by the Japanese ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara with the type locality given as Kazusa Province in Japan.

Distribution

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