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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sebastidae

rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads

WoRMS 125596ITIS 643436key worms:125596
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2026-08-05: itis_id 643436 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sebastes melanops

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Sebastidae
Photo · Travis · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 29,420 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 13 taxa under it.R

29,420
observations
29,420
records
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
11
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125596")