WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Sebastes mentella Travin, 1951

AphiaID

127254 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127254)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Sebastes Cuvier, 1829

Original name

Sebastes mentella Travin, 1951

Synonymised names

Sebastes (Sebastes) mentella Travin, 1951 · alternative representation

Sebastichthys mentella (Travin, 1951) · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Travin, V. I. (1951). Sebastes mentella Travin sp. nov. in Barentz Sea. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser. A (Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS), Leningrad new series. 77: 741-744. [In Russian. English translation by C. R. Robins, pp. 1-5; title as "A new species of sea perch in the Barents Sea (Sebases mentella Travin, sp. nov.).]. [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Western Atlantic: Baffin Bay to Long Island, NY

Distribution Western Atlantic: Baffin Bay to Long Island, NY [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Sebastes mentella Travin, 1951. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127254 on 2026-10-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Travin, V. I. (1951). Sebastes mentella Travin sp. nov. in Barentz Sea. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser. A (Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS), Leningrad new series. 77: 741-744. [In Russian. English translation by C. R. Robins, pp. 1-5; title as "A new species of sea perch in the Barents Sea (Sebases mentella Travin, sp. nov.).]. [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Fahay (in press) [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Diet Feed on euphausiids, hyperiids, cephalopods, chaetognaths and small fishes [details]

Distribution Western Atlantic: Baffin Bay to Long Island, NY [details]

Habitat inhabit deep waters; bear live young; gregarious throughout life [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Importance Social- Commercial, fishery [details]

Reproduction Ovoviviparous [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Dutch	diepzeeroodbaars	[details]
English	deepwater redfishbeaked redfish	[details]
French	sébaste du Nordsébaste atlantique	[details]
German	Schnabelbarsch	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	snabeluer	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	snabeluer	[details]