Helicolenus hilgendorfii

Helicolenus hilgendorfii
Hilgendorf's saucord
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Sebastidae
Genus: Helicolenus
Species: H. hilgendorfii
Binomial name
Helicolenus hilgendorfii
(Döderlein (de), 1884)[1][2]

Helicolenus hilgendorfii is one of ten species of rockfisheses in the genus Helicolenus. Known commonly as Hilgendorf's saucord, this fish is found in the Northwest Pacific as far as Japan and southern Korea to the East China Sea.[1] It reaches a maximum length of 27 cm.[1]

Biology

This species is viviparous.[1]

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