Sebastes trivittatus

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| taxon = Sebastes trivittatus

| authority = Hilgendorf, 1880

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Sebastes trivittatus, the threestripe rockfish,{{cite web | url = https://eol.org/pages/46568204 | title = Threestripe Rockfish Sebastes trivittatus Hilgendorf 1880 | access-date = 15 December 2021 | publisher = Encyclopedia of Life}} is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean where it has been recorded from Japan and Korea.{{FishBase|Sebastes|trivittatus|month=August|year=2021}} This species was first formally described in 1880 by the German zoologist and paleontologist Franz Martin Hilgendorf with the type locality given as Hokkaido.{{Cof genus | genus = Sebastes | access-date = 15 December 2021}} The specific name trivittatus means "threebanded", presumably alluding to the three stripes shown by living adults.{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/perciformes8/ | title = Order Perciformes (Part 8): Suborder Scorpaenoidei: Families Sebastidae, Setarchidae and Neosebastidae | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | editor1= Christopher Scharpf | editor2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp |date = 22 May 2021 | access-date = 15 December 2021 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}} Some authorities place this species in the subgenus Pteropodus.{{cite web | author1 = Z. Li | author2 = A.K. Gray | author3 = M.S. Love | author4 = A. Goto | author5 = A.J. Gharrett | year = 2007 | title = Are the Subgenera of Sebastes Monophyletic? | work = Biology, Assessment, and Management of North Pacific Rockfishes | publisher = Alaska Sea Grant College Program | url = https://lovelab.msi.ucsb.edu/Li%20et%20al.%202007.pdf}} This demersal fish is found o rock coasts. It is an ovoviviparous species. This species attains a maximum total length of {{cvt|62|cm}}, although {{cvt|45.5|cm}} and a maximum published weight of {{cvt|4.7|kg}}.