Lateolabrax is a genus of commercially important fishes known as the Asian seabasses. It is the only genus in the family Lateolabracidae. This genus is native to the coastal waters of the western Pacific Ocean. This genus has also been included in family Moronidae (temperate basses) and may be nested within the Polyprionidae.[1]
One potential fossil genus is also known in Avitolabrax from the earliest Miocene of Japan, which may be ancestral to Lateolabrax.[2]
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Lateolabrax japonicus Cuvier, 1828 | Japanese sea bass | Western pacific where it occurs from Japan to the South China Sea. | |
Lateolabrax latus Katayama, 1957 | Blackfin sea bass | coast of Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam. | |