Sebastes flammeus explained

Sebastes flammeus is a species of fish in the rockfish family found in the northwest Pacific.

Taxonomy

Sebastes flammeus was first formally described in 1904 as Sebastodes flammeus by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks with the type locality given as Misaki in Japan. It has been suggested by some studies that this taxon is a junior synonym of S. iracundus.^[1] authorities classify this species in the subgenus Acutomentum. The specific name flammeus means “flame red”.^[2]

Distribution, habitat and biology

Sebastes flammeus is found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean off northern Japan. It is a bathydemersal fish with a depth range of . It is an ovoviviparous fish which lives near the bottom.

Notes and References

1. AA. Balanov. Andrey Kukhlevskiy . Vladimir Brykov . 2004 . Sebastes flammeus (Jordan et Starks, 1904), a junior synonym of S. iracundus (Jordan et Starks, 1904), with the description of fish from southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk . Journal of Ichthyology . 44 . 1-9 .
2. Web site: Order Perciformes (Part 8): Suborder Scorpaenoidei: Families Sebastidae, Setarchidae and Neosebastidae . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . 22 May 2021 . 13 November 2021 . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.