Sebastidae

White-edged rockfish

Sebastes taczanowskii

Thirty Two Centimeters Sebastid Fish of Japanese Waters

• White
• Temperate
• Northern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Pacific Ocean
• East Asia
• Deep-bodied
• Medium
• Temperate fish

Sebastes taczanowskii, the white-edged rockfish, or Yezo seaperch is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean from northern Japan and far eastern Russia, it has also been reported from Korea. This species was first formally described in 1880 by the Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner with the type locality given as Northern Japan.