Sebastes melanostomus (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1890)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 109

Sebastes melanostomus (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1890) .

Blackgill Rockfish. To 61 cm (24 in) TL ( Phillips 1957). Northern British Columbia off west coast of Haida Gwaii ( Workman et al. 1998) to Isla de Cedros, central Baja California ( Miller and Lea 1972). Pelagic juveniles have been taken as far south as Punta Abreojos (26°06’N, 114°05’W), southern Baja California ( Moser and Ahlstrom 1978), strongly implying that adults live in southern Baja California. Benthic; depth: 88–768 m (289–2,520 ft) (min.: NWFSC-FRAM; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).