Sebastes melanostictus (Matsubara, 1934)

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 melanostictus (Matsubara, 1934) .

Blackspotted Rockfish. To at least 78 cm (30.7 in) FL ( Keller et al. 2016); 79.9 cm (31.5 in) TL based on conversion factors provided by James Orr. Pacific coast of Japan, at about 35°N, north through the Kuril Islands, Aleutian Islands, and the Bering Sea to 60°30’N, and southward to southern California on Coronado Bank (at 32°36’N) ( Orr and Hawkins 2008). Benthic; depth: at least 25–1,000 m (82–3,280 ft) (min.: Orlov and Tokranov 2019; max.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington). This species and S. aleutianus have only recently been recognized as distinct and thus it is not possible to use older estimates of maximum size, as well as geographic and depth ranges.