Treefish

Treefish
At Coronados Islands, Mexico
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Sebastidae
Genus: Sebastes
Species: S. serriceps
Binomial name
Sebastes serriceps
(Jordan & Gilbert, 1880)

The treefish (Sebastes serriceps) is a marine fish of the Sebastes genus.[1][2] It is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean with a range from San Francisco, California to central Baja California, Mexico. It has been reported up to 41 centimetres (16 in), and usually occurs in crevices in rocky areas.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Sebastes serriceps" in FishBase. June 2006 version.
  2. ^ "Semicossyphus pulcher". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=170744. Retrieved 18 April 2006.