Critically Endangered
Bocaccio rockfish
Sebastes paucispinis
Bocaccio rockfish is also known as rock salmon, salmon grouper, rockcod, Pacific red snapper, or simply bocaccio.
The ray-finned fish
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. Nebulosus) that Ayres described in the same paper.
Range and habitat
No country pin is stored for Bocaccio rockfish on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Studies off of Southern California oil platforms show they have produced a slight increase on bocaccio population. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) received a petition to list the southern population of bocaccio as a Threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The southern distinct population segment of bocaccio is a U.S. Government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service has some concerns regarding status and threats, but for that insufficient information is available to indicate a need to list the species under the U.S.
Bocaccio rockfish is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Bocaccio rockfish, Wikidata item Q2183057. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
