The bocaccio is one of the larger rockfish and can grow up to 3 feet (0.91 m) in length and live to 45 years. The Monterey submarine canyon is an ideal place for many marine organisms to inhabit or migrate through, and bocaccio in this canyon can consume multiple marine species such as shellfish ( pelagic shrimp and crab), anchovies, sardines, other small rockfishes, and squid. As the fish get older, they to move into deeper, colder water. Shallow water kelp forests and oil platforms also help these fish avoid danger, as they can use them to dodge and hide from predators. Juveniles stay in shallower water because of the protection provided by floating kelp mats or driftwood. They have been spotted from various depths from the surface to 1,568 feet (478 m) most live between 150–1,000 feet (46–305 m). Distribution and biology īocaccio can be found from Stepovak Bay, Alaska to central Baja California, but is mostly abundant from Oregon to northern Baja California. nebulosus) which Ayres described in the same paper. The specific name paucispinis is a compound of paucis meaning "poor", "few" or "insufficient" and spinus meaning "spine" a reference to the smaller number of and weaker spines on head in comparison to the China rockfish ( S. Some authorities place this species in the subgenus Sebastodes, of which it is the type species. The bocaccio rockfish was first formally described in 1854 by the American zoologist William Orville Ayres with the type locality given as California. The bocaccio rockfish ( Sebastes paucispinis) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae, It is found in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
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