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The Finding of the Dark Dusky Rockfish Sebastes ciliatus (Tilesius, 1813) (Sebastidae) in the Commander Archipelago with Notes on its “Captures” in Near-Surface Waters of the Northern Kuril Islands

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We present data on the captures of the dark dusky rockfish Sebastes ciliatus in a 5-mile sea zone off the northern part of Bering Island (Commander Islands). Based on analysis of the literature, evidence is provided indicating that the assignment of rockfish that were found earlier in the near-surface waters off the northern Kuril Islands to the S. ciliatus–S. variabilis group was erroneous and that the findings belong to the species S. melanops.

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  1. The Russian common name “tyemnyi morskoi okun” is applied to both S. ciliatus and S. variabilis [4]; therefore, in the present paper, we use the common name “buryi morskoi okun” to refer to S. variabilis, as proposed by B.A. Sheiko and V.V. Fedorov [13].

  2. Following a reexamination of materials, B. Sheiko (Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg) came to a conclusion (personal communication) that the specimen captured in 1994 at Arii Kamen Island (KIE 1170) belongs to S. ciliatus, while two specimens recorded from off Bering Island in 1996 (KIE 1409) are S. variabilis.

  3. The species identity was confirmed by B.A. Sheiko (Zoological Institute).

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors express their sincere gratitude to B.A. Sheiko (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) for the consultations on the species identity of rockfish caught off the Commander Archipelago in 1994 and 1996, as well as for valuable comments and recommendations that were made while reading the manuscript.

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Kurbanov, Y.K., Novikov, R.N. The Finding of the Dark Dusky Rockfish Sebastes ciliatus (Tilesius, 1813) (Sebastidae) in the Commander Archipelago with Notes on its “Captures” in Near-Surface Waters of the Northern Kuril Islands. Russ J Mar Biol 48, 521–524 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074022060086

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