Rockfish

Rockfish is a common term for fish of a number of species. Some may be named this for their hiding amongst rocks, bedeviling predators including man.

Gopher rockfish, a species of Sebastidae

Rock greenling, a species of Hexagrammos

Malabar grouper

Scorpaena onaria

Specific examples of fish termed rockfish include:

• Sebastes, a genus of commercial fish that mainly inhabit the North Pacific but with a few species in the North Atlantic and southern oceans
• Sebastidae, a family of marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world. Sebastes is a genus within this family.
• Acanthoclinus, a genus of fish from New Zealand
• Bull huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris), also known as rock salmon, a small shark from the northeast Atlantic
• Hexagrammos, a genus of greenling from the North Pacific
• Hypoplectrodes, a genus of serranids from southern oceans
• Salvelinus, a genus of salmonid fish
• Stonefish (Synanceia), a genus of venomous fishes from the Indo-Pacific
• Striped bass (Morone saxatilis), a species of fish from North America
• Groupers (Epinephelus), any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.
• Scorpaena, e.g. Madeira rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis) a common Mediterranean species.

See also

• Rockfish (disambiguation)

References