TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
Order: Scorpaeniformes (Scorpionfishes and flatheads)
Family: Sebastidae (Rockfishes, rockcods and thornyheads)
Genus/species: Sebastes rubrivinctus
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: The body is deep, fusiform, compressed. Adult colored white-pinkish with 4 dark red-orange to reddish-brown bars across back and base of tail.
Length up to 64 cm (25 inches).
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: San Francisco, California, USA to Baja California, Mexico. Found at depths up to 300 m (900 ft). Adults typically solitary and shelter in and around rocks, large white sea anemones, ledge overhangs and in kelp.
DIET IN THE WILD: Benthic predators of crabs, hermit crabs, shrimps, fishes, and octopuses.
LONGEVITY: Live to at least 18 years.
REPRODUCTION: Fertilization internal. Livebearer.
CONSERVATION: 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species.
REMARKS: A popular sport fish. Sebastes is Greek for “magnificent.” Rubrivinctus is formed from 2 Latin words that translate as “red banded.”
References
Ron’s flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/sets/72157608359804936/with/3505702397/
California Academy of Sciences Steinhart Aquarium California Rocky Coast 2017
Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann, 1983. A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Boston (MA, USA): Houghton Mifflin Company. p, 149
fishbase www.fishbase.ca/summary/3997
Probably More Than You Want To Know About The Fishes Of The Pacific Coast, Milton Love 1996 Really Big Press ppg. 188-189
eol eol.org/pages/211626/details
Ron’s WordPress Shortlink http://wp.me/p1DZ4b-E7
