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Rockfish is a common term for several species of fish, referring to their tendency to hide among rocks. The name rockfish is used for many kinds of fish used for food. This
common name In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often con ...
belongs to several groups that are not closely related, and can be arbitrary. Specific examples of fish termed rockfish include: *The family
Sebastidae Sebastinae is a subfamily of marine fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae in the order Scorpaeniformes. Their common names include rockfishes, rock perches, ocean perches, sea perches, thornyheads, scorpionfishes, sea ruffes and rockcods. De ...
, marine fishes that inhabit oceans around the world. They may be included in the family
Scorpaenidae The Scorpaenidae (also known as scorpionfish) are a family (biology), family of mostly ocean, marine fish that includes many of the world's most venomous species. As their name suggests, scorpionfish have a type of "sting" in the form of sharp ...
. ** ''
Sebastes ''Sebastes'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae part of the family Scorpaenidae, most of which have the common name of rockfish. A few are called ocean perch, sea perch or redfish instead. They are found ...
'', a commercially important genus of fish in the Sebastidae inhabiting mainly the North Pacific, but with a few species in the North Atlantic and southern oceans ** In Washington State, many species of ''Sebastes'' and a few of ''
Sebastolobus ''Sebastolobus'', the thornyheads, is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the Family (biology), family Scorpaenidae. These fishes are native to the northern and eastern Pacific Ocean. T ...
'' are called rockfish. * ''
Acanthoclinus ''Acanthoclinus'' is a genus of roundheads of the family Plesiopidae. They are elongated in shape with large mouths and eyes, and are found in the oceans around New Zealand. The species in the genus include: * '' Acanthoclinus fuscus'' Jenyns, 184 ...
'', a genus of fish from New Zealand * Bull huss or bull huss (''Scyliorhinus stellaris''), a shark known as
rock salmon Rock salmon, also called rock eel, flake, huss or Sweet William, is a variety of fish as food, usually served in Britain as part of a fish and chips dish. The term can describe many species of small shark, including the spiny dogfish (''Squalu ...
when used in cuisine * ''
Hexagrammos ''Hexagrammos'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Hexagrammidae, the greenlings. These fishes are found in the north Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy ''Hexagrammos'' was first proposed as a monospecific genu ...
'', a genus of
greenling Hexagrammidae, the greenlings, is a family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the suborder Cottoidei in the order Perciformes. These fishes are found in the North Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Hexagrammidae was first proposed as a family in 188 ...
from the North Pacific * '' Hypoplectrodes'', a genus of fish in the family
Serranidae Serranidae is a large family (biology), family of fishes belonging to the order Perciformes. The family contains about 450 species in 65 genera, including the sea basses and the groupers (subfamily Epinephelinae). Although many species are small, ...
* ''
Salvelinus ''Salvelinus'' is a genus of Salmonidae, salmonid fish often called char or charr; some species are called "trout". ''Salvelinus'' is a member of the subfamily Salmoninae within the family Salmonidae. The genus has a northern circumpolar distrib ...
'', a genus of fish in the
salmon family Salmon (; : salmon) are any of several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera ''Salmo'' and ''Oncorhynchus'' of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (''Salmo'') and North Pac ...
* The
stonefishes Synanceiinae is a subfamily of venomous ray-finned fishes, waspfishes, which is classified as part of the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives. These fishes are found in the Indo-Pacific oceans. They are primarily marine, ...
(genus ''Synanceia''),
venomous Venom or zootoxin is a type of toxin produced by an animal that is actively delivered through a wound by means of a bite, sting, or similar action. The toxin is delivered through a specially evolved ''venom apparatus'', such as fangs or a sti ...
fishes from the Indo-Pacific *
Striped bass The striped bass (''Morone saxatilis''), also called the Atlantic striped bass, striper, linesider, rock, or rockfish, is an anadromous perciform fish of the family Moronidae found primarily along the Atlantic coast of North America. It has ...
(''Morone saxatilis''), called rockfish on the Atlantic coast of North America from New Jersey south *
Groupers Groupers are a diverse group of marine ray-finned fish in the family Epinephelidae, in the order Perciformes. Groupers were long considered a subfamily of the seabasses in Serranidae, but are now treated as distinct. Not all members of this f ...
, fish in the subfamily
Epinephelinae Groupers are a diverse group of marine Actinopterygii, ray-finned fish in the family Epinephelidae, in the order Perciformes. Groupers were long considered a subfamily of the seabasses in Serranidae, but are now treated as distinct. Not all m ...
* Certain fish of genus ''
Scorpaena ''Scorpaena'' is a widespread genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. Taxonomy ''Scorpaena'' was first described as a genus in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th Edition of his ''Systema Naturae' ...
'', such as the
Madeira rockfish The Madeira rockfish (''Scorpaena maderensis'') is a species of scorpionfish (Scorpaenidae) in the genus '' Scorpaena,'' found in the coastal waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. This species reaches a length of around ...
(''S. maderensis''), a common Mediterranean species * ''
Myliobatis goodei The Southern eagle ray (''Myliobatis goodei''), sometimes known as the Southern eagle fish or the rockfish, is a Batoidea, ray species in the family Myliobatidae. It lives in waters just off of the Atlantic coast, from the tip of Florida down to ...
'', which is sometimes called "rockfish"


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