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Sebastes aleutianus, the rougheye rockfish of the North Pacific, is among the longest-lived fish known, with verified ages exceeding 200 years based on otolith analysis.
Sebastes alutus, the Pacific ocean perch, is a commercially important rockfish ranging from California to Japan that supports major trawl fisheries across the North Pacific.
Sebastes pinniger, the canary rockfish, is a brightly orange-yellow rockfish of the northeast Pacific declared overfished by U.S. managers in the early 2000s due to trawl pressure.
A commercially harvested rockfish (Sebastolobus alascanus) of the northeastern Pacific capable of living up to 100 years at depths ranging from 18 to 1,500 m.
A deep-water rockfish (Sebastolobus altivelis) of the eastern Pacific that inhabits greater depths than the shortspine thornyhead, typically found at 300–1,700 m.
An ovoviviparous scorpaenid (Helicolenus dactylopterus) found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean at 50–1,000 m, targeted by artisanal and commercial fisheries.
A deep-water scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae) that retains the venomous dorsal fin spines typical of its family despite adaptation to mesopelagic or bathypelagic depths.
Pontinus kuhlii is a scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae) found in deep waters of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, named after the early 19th-century German naturalist Heinrich Kuhl.
