Starry rockfish

The body of the starry rockfish is elongate, robust, heavy forward tapering to the tail.

The Starry rockfish lives in the reef-associated, marine, depth range 24 - 274 m , usually 60 - 149 m environment.

The starry rockfish is a type of rockfish (Sebastidae) that lives mainly off the coasts of California and Baja California. This fish are also commonly called spotted corsair, spotted rockfish, chinafish, and red rock cod. More

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Description: The body of the starry rockfish is elongate, robust, heavy forward tapering to the tail. The head is rather pointed in profile and the mouth is large with the lower jaw projecting only slightly beyond the upper jaw when the mouth is closed. More

Photo of starry rockfish, photo taken by Daniel Gotshall of the Channel Islands National Marine Santuary. More

Starry rockfish, Sebastes constellatus Purchase A Print Of This ImageHow to request, purchase or license this imageAdd To Light Table Flag rockfish. Image ID: 11790 Species: Flag rockfish, Sebastes rubrivinctus Gopher rockfish. More

rockfish, rosy rockfish, and starry rockfish were ascribed to depths greater than 73 m. To focus our analysis of the fishery, we categorized our top 16 rockfish species by the depth range where the fish are usually caught. More

Common names

rockfish in English
Rocote estrellado in Spanish (español)
starry rockfish in English
Stjernerødfisk in Danish (dansk)
密星平鮋 in Mandarin Chinese
密星平鲉 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Scorpaeniformes
Family : Sebastidae
Genus : Sebastes
Species : Sebastes constellatus
Authority : Jordan and Gilbert, 1880