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Vermilion Rockfish

Sebastes miniatus

Also known as: Cow Cod, Ocean Perch, Rasher, Red Rockcod, Red Snapper, Rock Perch, Sea Perch, Vermillion Red Rockcod, Vermillion Rockcod, Vermilion Seaperch

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Overview

Found in schools, over shallow, too much deeper waters of rocky 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
blotcheswhite lines
Behaviour
schooling

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Eastern Pacific
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Found in schools, over shallow, too much deeper waters of rocky reefs.

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2 comments

  • VICTOR· 8 Mar 2019

    Actually this is a Canary Rockfish ( Sebastes pinniger )

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  • fishx6Top Contributor· 9 Mar 2019

    Thank you very hard to tell apart when in an aquarium and not by area!

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Taxonomy

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

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