Sebastidae
rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads
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2026-08-05: itis_id 643436 via WoRMS external link
Sebastinae is a subfamily of marine fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae in the order Scorpaeniformes. Their common names include rockfishes, rock perches, ocean perches, sea perches and rockcods.W CalCOFI holds 31,903 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 42 taxa under it.R
- 31,903
- observations
- 31,903
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 40
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Sebastinae most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125596")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125596'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 2 taxa · Sebastinae most observed
- sF Sebastinae30,975
- sF Sebastolobinae928
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Scorpaenoidei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sebastes melanops · source
- Photo · Travis · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Sebastinae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354695230
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗