Sebastes borealis Barsukov, 1970

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 106

Sebastes borealis Barsukov, 1970 .

Shortraker Rockfish. To 120 cm (47.2 in) TL ( Novikov 1974). Sea of Okhotsk, Pacific Ocean off northern Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, and western Bering Sea ( Tokranov and Davydov 1998), to Navarin Canyon and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Point Conception, California ( Allen and Smith 1988). A juvenile specimen (Personal communication: University of Alaska Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska) taken in the Bering Strait southwest of Cape Prince of Wales (65°21’N, 168°18’W), examined by both Lloyd Chen and Catherine Mecklenburg, may be this species. Benthic; depth: 25–1,200 m (82–3,937 ft) (min.: Allen and Smith 1988; max.: Sheiko and Fedorov 2000); also reported at surface ( Orlov and Tokranov 2019), but without documentation.