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 babcocki (Thompson, 1915) . Redbanded Rockfish . To 92 cm ( 36.2 in ) FL (DFO); 94.8 cm ( 37.3 in ) TL based on conversion factors in Echeverria and Lenarz (1984) . Bering Sea at Zhemchug Canyon ( Allen and Smith 1988 ), and Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to San Diego, southern California ( Miller and Lea 1972 ). Benthic; depth: 21–1,150 m ( 69–3,772 ft ) (min.: DFO; max.: NWFSC-FRAM). Between the time of its description and the early 1970s, researchers considered the Redbanded Rockfish to be synonymous with the Flag Rockfish, Sebastes rubrivinctus ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1880). Work by Rosenblatt and Chen (1972) distinguished these species. However, this misidentification added confusion to various fishery studies and it is now assumed that most or all “Flag Rockfish” previously reported from Oregon to Alaska are Redbanded Rockfish.