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northern rockfish

Sebastes polyspinis

Classification

Sebastes polyspinis, the northern 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 northern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Sebastes polyspinius was first formally described as Sebastodes polyspinis in 1933 by the Soviet biologists Anatoly Yakovlevich Taranetz and Peter Alekseevich Moiseev with the type locality given as the Pribilof Islands near Kamchatka in the Bering Sea.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 30Canada · 4