Summary ³

Blackspotted and Rougheye rockfish species can be difficult to tell apart and so are treated as one complex. They are pink, tan or brownish with flecking that forms saddles or blotches. They often have a darker blotch on the rear of their operculum. Fins may be edged in black.

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1. (c) Jennifer Long, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Jennifer Long
2. (c) sharon_jeffery, all rights reserved, uploaded by sharon_jeffery
3. Adapted by sharon_jeffery from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastes_aleutianus

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