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canary rockfish

Sebastes pinniger

Classification

The canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger), also known as the orange rockfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is native to the waters of the Pacific Ocean off western North America. Taxonomy The canary rockfish was first formally described in 1864 by the American zoologist Theodore Gill with the type locality given as California.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 24,323Canada · 6,868