{{Short description|Species of scorpionfish}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Speciesbox | image = Sebatses gilli.jpg | taxon = Sebastes gilli | authority = (R. S. Eigenmann, 1891)<ref name = "Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Sebastes|access-date=4 May 2026}}</ref> | synonyms = * ''Sebastodes gilli'' <small>R. S. Eigenmann, 1891</small> }}
'''''Sebastes gilli''''', the '''bronzespotted rockfish''', is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes, and the subfamily Sebastinae, which includes the rockfishes, rock perches, ocean perches, sea perches and rockcods. This fish is found in the eastern central Pacific Ocean off California and Mexico.
==Taxonomy== ''Sebastes gilli'' was first formally described as ''Sebastodes gilli'' in 1891 by the American ichthyologist Rosa Smith Eigenmann with its type locality given as off Point Loma near San Diego, California.<ref name = "Cof genus"/> ''Sebastes'' is a speciose genus with over 100 species assigned to it and is divided into a number of subgenera. ''S. gilli'', however, is not assigned to a subgenus and is regarded as ''incertae sedis'' within ''Sebastes''.<ref name = Li2006>{{cite journal |author=Li, Z. |author2=Gray, A.K. |author3=Love, Milton |author4=Asahida, Takashi |name-list-style=and |author5=Gharrett, A.J. |year=2006 |title=Phylogeny of members of the rockfish (''Sebastes'') subgenus ''Pteropodus'' and their relatives |journal=Canadian Journal of Zoology |volume=84 |pages=527-536 |doi=10.1139/z06-022}}</ref> The genus ''Sebastes'' is the type genus of the subfamily Sebastinae in the scorpionfish family Scorpaneidae which is classified by ''Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes'' within the suborder Scorpaenoidei of the order Perciformes.<ref name = ECoF>{{cite web |url=https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/catalog-of-fishes-classification/ |title=Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification |editor1=Richard van der Laan |editor2=Ronald Fricke |access-date=4 May 2026 |work=Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes |publisher=California Academy of Sciences}}</ref>
==Etymology== ''Sebastes gilli'' belongs to the genus ''Sebastes'', this name is derived from the Greek ''Sebastos'' which is the equivalent of the Latin ''Augustus'', the Roman Imperial title. This is an allusion to an ancient name, which roughly translated as "august" or "venerable", used on Ibiza for ''Sebastes norvegicus''. The specific name honors the American biologist Theodore Gill of the Smithsonian Institution.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web |url=https://etyfish.org/perciformes8/ |title=Order PERCIFORMES (part 8): Suborder SCORPAENOIDEI: Families SEBASTIDAE, SETARCHIDAE and NEOSEBASTIDAE |author=Christopher Scarpf |date=31 August 2022 |access-date=4 May 2026 |work=The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database |publisher=Christopher Scharpf}}</ref>
==Description== ''Sebastes gilli'' is mainly red in color with faint dusky streaks on the back and bronze spots on the back and upper flanks including the dorsal fin base. There are areas of plaer orange color under the soft rayed part of the dorsal fin and the lateral line is pink.<ref name = Guide>{{cite book |url=https://apps-afsc.fisheries.noaa.gov/Publications/AFSC-TM/NOAA-TM-AFSC-117.pdf |title=Guide to Rockfishes of the Genera ''Sebastes'', ''Sebastolobus'' and ''Adelosebastes'' of the Northeasr Pacific Ocean |author1=James Wilder Orr |author2=Michael A. Brown |name-list-style=and |author3=David C. Baker |edition=2 |year=2000 |publisher=US Department of Commerce |series = NOAA Technical Memorandum |issue=NMFS-AFSC-117 |page=41}}</ref> There are 3 bronze lines radiating out from the eye, one going downwards the cheek and two to the rear. Younger fish have paler fins which darken as they get older. There are 12 spines and 12 to 15 soft rays in the dorsal fin, while the anal fin# has and 3 spines and between 6 and 8 soft rays. The body is deep with a depth equivalent to 26% to 30% of the standard length, older fish are deeper than the younger fish.<ref name = MF>{{cite web |url=https://mexican-fish.com/bronzespotted-rockfish/ |title=Bronzespotted Rockfish |access-date=4 May 2026 |website=Mexican Fish}}</ref> The bronzespotted rockfish reaches a total length of {{cvt|71|cm}} and a maximum published weight of {{cvt|5|kg}}.<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase|Sebastes|gilli|month=February|year=2026}}</ref>
==Distribution and habiata== ''Sebastes gilli'' is found in the eastern North Pacific Ocean off the coast of western North America from just south of Ensenada in Baja California north to central California. The bronzespotted rockfish inhabits caves and high relief rocky areas at depths between {{cvt|75|and|413|m}}.<ref name = HM/>
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gilli Category:Fish described in 1891 Category:Taxa named by Rosa Smith Eigenmann Category:Fish of Mexico