Sebastini

Sebastini is a tribe of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae of the family Scorpaenidae in the order Scorpaeniformes.

Sebastini
Kelp rockfish (Sebastes atrovirens)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Scorpaenidae
Subfamily:	Sebastinae
Tribe:	Sebastini Kaup, 1873

Taxonomy

Sebastini was first formally recognised as a grouping in 1873 by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup.^[1] Authorities who treat the clade referred to as Sebastinae as a family treat the Sebastini as a subfamily and call this grouping Sebastinae.^[2]

Genera

Sebastini contains four genera with 120 species, most in Sebastes.^[3][2]

• Helicolenus Goode & Bean, 1896
• Hozukius Matsubara, 1934
• Sebastes Cuvier, 1829
• Sebastiscus Jordan & Starks, 1904