Sebastiscus albofasciatus

Sebastiscus albofasciatus, the yellowbarred red rockfish or yellowbarred stingfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae.

[2] The specific name albofasciatus means "white banded", Lacépède described the species from an illustration which showed it had a white band at the base of the caudal fin, this is pink and golden in living specimens.

Identified from S, marmoratus in the pectoral fin normally having 17 rays and by a sharp spine on the upper edge of the second introrbital bone.

[4] In live fish there is a pink and gold band at the base of the caudal fin.

[1] Sebastiscus albofasciatus is found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean where it occurs in the East China Sea, South China Sea, including Hong Kong, and from southern Japan to eastern Korea.