Yellowtail rockfish

Yellowtail rockfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Scorpaenidae
Genus: Sebastes
Species:
S. flavidus
Binomial name
Sebastes flavidus
(Ayres, 1862)
Synonyms[1]
  • Sebastodes flavidus Ayres, 1862

The yellowtail rockfish (Sebastes flavidus), or yellowtail seaperch, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. This species lives mainly off the coast of western North America from California to Alaska.

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Sebastes flavidus". FishBase. August 2021 version.