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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sebastes

Rockfishes

WoRMS 126175ITIS 166705GBIF 11612261key worms:126175
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166705 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).

Sebastes atrovirens (kelp rockfish). Courtesy of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Photo · Chad King (SIMoN / MBNMS) · Public domain · commons

Sebastes is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae part of the family Scorpaenidae, most of which have the common name of rockfish. A few are called ocean perch, sea perch or redfish instead.W CalCOFI holds 28,499 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 10 taxa under it.R

28,499
observations
28,499
records
18,187
sampling events
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
9
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 18,187 obs · 18,187 events · 1951–2023 · larva
    name used: Sebastes crocotulus Sunset rockfish · code 3023 synonym
    name used: Sebastes Rockfishes · code 683

Under it · 9 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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:126175%22