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 text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Sebastes diploproa (Gilbert, 1890) . Splitnose Rockfish . To 45.7 cm ( 18 in ) TL ( Phillips 1957 ). Sanak Islands, western Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Isla de Cedros, central Baja California ( Kramer and O’Connell 1995 ). Voucher specimens are known from as far west in the Gulf of Alaska as 54°20’N , 159°55’W ( Maslenikov et al. 2013 ). Benthic; depth: 50–1,050 m ( 164–3,444 ft ) (min.: DFO; max.: NWFSC-FRAM). Young fish often found near surface under drifting kelp ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983 ).