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Sebastes chrysomelas (Rockfish; Black-and-yellow rockfish)

Synonyms: Sebastichthys chrysomelas; Sebastodes chrysomelas
Language: Danish; Mandarin Chinese; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Sebastes chrysomelas, commonly known as the black-and-yellow rockfish, is a marine fish species of the family Sebastidae. It is found in rocky areas in the Pacific off California and Baja California. Although it is similar in appearance to theChina rockfish, it lacks the China's long yellow streak. Its distribution is also more to the south than the China.
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Infraspecies

Sebastichthys chrysomelas chrysomelas

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  22 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
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge IV 352 California, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Hexagrammos decagrammus (Kelp greenling)2
Scorpaenichthys marmoratus (Sculpin)1
Sebastes carnatus (Rockfish)1
Sebastes caurinus (Copper rockfish)1

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Aporocotyle macfarlani[4]
Hysterothylacium rigidum[2]
Littorellicola sebastodorum[4]
Microcotyle sebastis[4]
Opechona occidentalis[4]

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.
♦ 3Food 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
♦ 4Gibson, 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