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Quillback Rockfish

Sebastes maliger

Also known as: Brown Bomber, Orange-spotted Rockfish, Quillback Seaperch

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Adult
@jpc · Point Lobos, CA, United States · September 20031 / 1
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Overview

Found singly, close to cover, on rocky bottoms, or hovering close to the bottom of reefs.

These fish are related to Scorpionfish, they have venomous glands in their pelvic, dorsal and Anal Fins.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
barsspeckles
Behaviour
hoveringsolitary

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Eastern Pacific
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Found singly, close to cover, on rocky bottoms, or hovering close to the bottom of reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderPerciformes
    5. familySebastidae
    6. genusSebastes
    7. speciesSebastes maliger (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880)

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