Ron DeCloux, USA
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Adults of this species are found over rocky reefs, but also on open ground up to about 320 m, while juveniles are pelagic and settle in schools in near-shore nursery areas, later moving to deeper habitats.
There are three bocaccio stocks: one stock on the southern Pacific coast, one stock in a stock complex on the northern Pacific coast and one stock in a stock complex in the Gulf of Alaska.
One particularly striking feature quickly identifies this species, it can be recognized by its long jaw, which extends to the eye socket or beyond.
Adult bocaccios mainly eat fish, their favorite meal being other rockfish, but they also eat sablefish, anchovies, lanternfish and squid.
Female bocaccios can spawn one to three times per season.
They are very prolific for a rockfish and have been found to have between 290,000 and 1.9 million eggs in their ovaries at any one time.
Young bocaccios are light bronze in color with small brown spots on their sides. As they grow older, they lose their spots and become darker in color.
Adult bocaccios have an olive, orange or brown back when they are fully grown. Their stomachs are pink and red.
Like most other species of rockfish, the bocaccio is long-lived, the spinyhead can live up to 50 years.
Sebastes paucispinis is also found around coral and sponge reefs and even man-made artificial structures such as oil platforms.
A good fish for sport anglers!
Synonyms:
Sebastes (Sebastodes) paucispinis Ayres, 1854 - alternative representation
Sebastes paucispinus Ayres, 1854 - unaccepted (misspelling)
Sebastodes paucispinis (Ayres, 1854) - unaccepted
There are three bocaccio stocks: one stock on the southern Pacific coast, one stock in a stock complex on the northern Pacific coast and one stock in a stock complex in the Gulf of Alaska.
One particularly striking feature quickly identifies this species, it can be recognized by its long jaw, which extends to the eye socket or beyond.
Adult bocaccios mainly eat fish, their favorite meal being other rockfish, but they also eat sablefish, anchovies, lanternfish and squid.
Female bocaccios can spawn one to three times per season.
They are very prolific for a rockfish and have been found to have between 290,000 and 1.9 million eggs in their ovaries at any one time.
Young bocaccios are light bronze in color with small brown spots on their sides. As they grow older, they lose their spots and become darker in color.
Adult bocaccios have an olive, orange or brown back when they are fully grown. Their stomachs are pink and red.
Like most other species of rockfish, the bocaccio is long-lived, the spinyhead can live up to 50 years.
Sebastes paucispinis is also found around coral and sponge reefs and even man-made artificial structures such as oil platforms.
A good fish for sport anglers!
Synonyms:
Sebastes (Sebastodes) paucispinis Ayres, 1854 - alternative representation
Sebastes paucispinus Ayres, 1854 - unaccepted (misspelling)
Sebastodes paucispinis (Ayres, 1854) - unaccepted
