Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Zootaxa
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2021-10-19
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Sebastes borealis
Barsukov, 1970
.
Shortraker Rockfish
. To
120 cm
(
47.2 in
) TL (
Novikov 1974
). Sea of Okhotsk, Pacific Ocean off northern
Hokkaido
,
Japan
, to Kamchatka, and western Bering Sea (
Tokranov and Davydov 1998
), to Navarin Canyon and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002), to Point Conception, California (
Allen and Smith 1988
). A juvenile specimen (Personal communication: University of Alaska Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska) taken in the Bering Strait southwest of Cape Prince of Wales (
65°21’N
,
168°18’W
), examined by both Lloyd Chen and Catherine Mecklenburg, may be this species. Benthic; depth:
25–1,200 m
(
82–3,937 ft
) (min.:
Allen and Smith 1988
; max.:
Sheiko and Fedorov 2000
); also reported at surface (
Orlov and Tokranov 2019
), but without documentation.