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Sebastes flavidus

Yellowtail rockfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 274795ITIS 166720GBIF 2335500key worms:274795
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166720 via WoRMS external link

The yellowtail rockfish, or yellowtail seaperch, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. This species lives mainly off the coast of western North America from California to Alaska.W CalCOFI holds 8 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2013, as larva.R

8
observations
8
records
8
sampling events
2002–2013
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
66 cm
max length
Yellowtail rockfish (Sebastes flavidus) swimming over brachiopods on a low relief ledge off Point Sur observed during a sanctuary seafloor monitoring survey using the Delta submersible.
Photo · Jean DeMarignac (SIMoN / MBNMS) · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 8 obs8 events2002–2013larva
    name used: Sebastes flavidus Yellowtail rockfish · code 3028

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:274795%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 66 cm max
Yellowtail rockfish66 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 14 ranks · Biota to Sebastes
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sebastes melanops · source
  • Photo · Jean DeMarignac (SIMoN / MBNMS) · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Yellowtail rockfish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354949922
  • Length · worms_attribute
  • Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗