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Sebastolobus alascanus

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Taxonomy

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	SCORPAENIFORMES	SCORPAENIDAE

Scientific Name:

Sebastolobus alascanus

Species Authority:

Bean, 1890

Common Name/s:

English

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Shortspine Thornyhead

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Endangered A2d ver 2.3
Year Published:	2000
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	Bell, T. & Guttman, A.
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Justification: Commercial exploitation of S. alascanus began in 1967. Since then, a valuable market has developed for the species. Populations have declined in all areas assessed. Overall it has declined by 53% from the estimated unfished biomass to the biomass in 1998.

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: Canada; Russian Federation; United States
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:

Marine

Citation:	Bell, T. & Guttman, A. 2000. Sebastolobus alascanus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 June 2013.
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