Sebastes mystinus ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1881)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 110

Sebastes mystinus ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1881) .

Blue Rockfish. The maximum size and geographic and depth ranges of this species are unclear due to previous confusion with Sebastes diaconus and S. ciliatus . Thus the values presented here should be regarded as tentative. To at least 38.5 cm (15.2 in) TL ( Schmidt 2014), but perhaps to 53.3 cm (21 in) TL ( Phillips 1957). At least central Oregon (44.5°N) to northern Baja California (32.5°N) ( Frable et al. 2015), and probably to just south of Punta Baja (29°54’42”N, 115°49’W), northern Baja California ( Klingbeil and Knaggs 1976). Records from Alaska (i.e., Chatham Strait and Kruzof Island, south-eastern Alaska and perhaps Elfin Cove, south-eastern Alaska ( Love et al. 2005)) are likely S. diaconus . It is likely that all “Blue Rockfish” from the Bering Sea and the western Gulf of Alaska refer to S. ciliatus (referred to as Dusky Rockfish in Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: surface to at least 156 m (512 ft) (M.L., unpubl. data), and probably including the intertidal ( Moring 1972); a record of about 549 m (1,800 ft) ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) seems anomalously deep and is without documentation.