Sebastiscus

Sebastiscus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae part of the family Scorpaenidae. These fishes are native to the western Pacific Ocean. They are collectively called sea ruffes and resemble the rockfishes in the genus Sebastes, but are usually smaller and have a different pattern.

==Taxonomy== Sebastiscus was first formally described as a subgenus of Sebastes by David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks in 1904 with Sebastes marmoratus, which had been described by Georges Cuvier in 1829, as its type species. It was regarded as a subgenus up to 1984 when it was proposed as a valid genus, albeit within the same tribe Sebastini as the speciose genus Sebastes, which is one of the tribes of the subfamily Sebastinae within the family Scorpaenidae and the order Scorpaeniformes. but other authorities place it in the Perciformes in the suborder Scorpaenoidei.