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Rose fish


 
 


The rose fish (Sebastes marinus), is also known as the ocean perch, Norway haddock, red perch, redfishRedfish

Redfish is a common name for several species of fish....
, or hemdurgan; it is sometimes mistakenly called bergylt, bream, or snapper.

Despite its common names, the rose fish is not a member of the order PerciformesPerciformes

The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, include about 40% of all fish and are the largest ...
 of perch-like fish, but of its sister taxon the ScorpaeniformesScorpaeniformes

Scorpaeniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Scleroparei or Dactylopteriformes, closely relat...
; nor is it related to the haddockHaddock

The haddock or offshore hake is a marine fish distributed on both sides of the North Atlantic....
.

This food fish lives off the North Atlantic coasts of EuropeFacts About Europe

Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth....
 and North AmericaNorth America

North America is a continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost fully in the western hemisphere....
. Adults are found off the coast at depths of 100 to 1000 metres; juveniles may be found in coastal waters such as fiords. The adults are slow moving, gregarious fish, of some commercial importance. They are viviparous. While the young fish are of brownFacts About Brown

The color brown is a dark red or orange of very low intensity; however brown exists as a color perception only in the presen...
ish color, the adults are bright red.

The rose fish appeared on a 15-pfennigPfennig

The pfennig is a small coin and the minor unit of the German currency....
 stamp of West GermanyWest Germany

West Germany was the informal English name for the Federal Republic of Germany, or FRG from 1949 to 1990....
 in 1964.

In the USA, the related blackbelly rosefish, Helicolenus dactylopterus is sometimes also known just as the Rose Fish.