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Black Rockfish
Plate 1 of 8. Chad King (SIMoN / MBNMS), no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist

Black Rockfish

Sebastes melanops

The black rockfish (Sebastes melanops), also known variously as the black seaperch, black bass, black rock cod, sea bass, black snapper and Pacific Ocean perch, is a rockfish of the genus Sebastes. It is sometimes misidentified as the "red snapper."

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47760.