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Sebastes mystinus (Rockfish; Rock cod; Priest-fish; Priestfish; Blue rockfish)

Synonyms: Sebastichthys mystinus; Sebastodes mystinus
Language: Alutiiq; Danish; Heiltsuk; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The blue rockfish, Sebastes mystinus, (also known as the blue seaperch) is a rockfish of the Pacific coast found from Alaska to Baja California. Blue rockfish have a relatively smooth and oval appearance compared to other members of Sebastes, with very few head spines. Color is a bluish black to gray, with some darker mottling, including a pair of stripes angling down and back from the eye. The terminal mouths are small for rockfish. Length ranges up to 55 to 60 cm, and weights up to 3.8 kg. The species epithet mystinus derives from the Greek for "priest", referring to the overall dark color.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.597 lbs (2.085 kg)
Female Maturity [2]  4 years 6 months
Male Maturity [1]  3 years 6 months
Maximum Longevity [2]  44 years

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Chelyosoma productum (Horseshoe sea squirt)[3]
Euherdmania claviformis (Grey tunicate)[3]
Polyclinum planum (Brown tunicate)[3]
Pycnoclavella stanleyi (Orange-striped tunicate)[3]
Styela montereyensis (Stalked sea squirt)[3]

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Microcotyle sebastis[4]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Frimpong, 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.
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 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