Sebastes borealis Barsukov, 1970 .

Shortraker Rockfish. To 120 cm (47.2 in) TL (Novikov 1974). Sea of Okhotsk, Pacific Ocean off northern Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, and western Bering Sea (Tokranov and Davydov 1998), to Navarin Canyon and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Point Conception, California (Allen and Smith 1988). A juvenile specimen (Personal communication: University of Alaska Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska) taken in the Bering Strait southwest of Cape Prince of Wales (65°21’N, 168°18’W), examined by both Lloyd Chen and Catherine Mecklenburg, may be this species. Benthic; depth: 25–1,200 m (82–3,937 ft) (min.: Allen and Smith 1988; max.: Sheiko and Fedorov 2000); also reported at surface (Orlov and Tokranov 2019), but without documentation.