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Sebastes carnatus (Rockfish; Gopher rockfish)

Synonyms: Sebastichthys carnatus
Language: Mandarin Chinese; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus) (also known as the Gopher Seaperch) is a rockfish of the Pacific coast, primarily off California. Gopher rockfish have a generally mottled appearance, with dark areas generally olive to reddish brown, and the lighter areas being white or maybe pinkish. The upper part of the back almost always has three light patches extending into the dorsal fins, and the lighter areas become more extensive ventrally. They range in size up to about 40 cm.
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  30 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary   California, United States
Channel Islands National Park II 139010 California, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Hexagrammos decagrammus (Kelp greenling)2
Leptocottus armatus (Cabezon)1
Sebastes caurinus (Copper rockfish)1
Sebastes chrysomelas (Rockfish)1

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Littorellicola sebastodorum[5]
Microcotyle sebastis[5]
Trochopus marginata <Unverified Name>[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Loury, Erin Kimberly, Diet of the Gopher Rockfish (Sebastes carnatus) Inside and Outside of Marine Protected Areas in Central California (2011). Master's Theses. San Jose State University, Paper 4060
♦ 4Food Habits as an Ecological Partitioning Mechanism in the Nearshore Rockfishes (Sebastes) of Carmel Bay, California, Dale Alan Roberts, Masters Thesis, San Francisco State University, 1979
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0