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 diaconus Frable, Wagman, Frierson, Aguilar, & Sidlauskas, 2015 . Deacon Rockfish . The maximum size, geographic, and depth ranges of this species are unclear due to previous confusion with Sebastes mystinus and Sebastes ciliatus . Thus, the values presented here should be regarded as tentative. To at least 41 cm ( 16.1 in ) FL ( Hannah et al. 2015 ). Vancouver Island, British Columbia ( Frable et al. 2015 ) to at least Santa Rosa Island, southern California (John Butler, pers. comm to M.L.). Records of “blue rockfish” from Alaska (i.e., Chatham Strait and Kruzof Island, south-eastern Alaska ) ( Victoria O’Connell, pers. comm. to M.L.), and perhaps to Elfin Cove, south-eastern Alaska (Scott Meyer, pers. comm. to M.L.) are likely either this species or S. ciliatus . It is likely that all “Blue Rockfish” from the Bering Sea and the western Gulf of Alaska refer to S. ciliatus (referred to as dusky rockfish in Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: at least 8–86 m ( 26–282 ft ) (min.: Frable et al. 2015 ; max.: NWFSC-FRAM).