Lateolabrax

{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Suzuki201302.jpg | image_caption = Japanese seabass (''L. japonicus'') | parent_authority = V. G. Springer & Raasch, 1965<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | taxon = Lateolabrax | authority = Bleeker, 1855<ref name = CofF>{{Cof record|genid=2402|title=''Lateolabrax''|access-date= 3 April 2020}}</ref> | type_species = ''Labrax japonicus'' | type_species_authority = Cuvier, 1828 | synonyms = * ''Percalabrax'' Temminck & Schlegel, 1843 }}

'''''Lateolabrax''''' is a genus of commercially important ray-finned fishes known as the '''Asian seabasses'''. It is the only genus in the family '''Lateolabracidae'''.<ref>{{FishBase family | family = Lateolabracidae| month = October | year = 2013}}</ref> This genus is native to the coastal waters of the western Pacific Ocean.<ref name=FishBase/> This genus has also been included in family Moronidae (temperate basses) and may be nested within the Polyprionidae.<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |page= 435 |publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }}</ref>

One potential fossil genus is also known in ''Avitolabrax'' from the earliest Miocene of Japan, which may be ancestral to ''Lateolabrax''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Matschiner |first1=Michael |last2=Musilová |first2=Zuzana |last3=Barth |first3=Julia M. I. |last4=Starostová |first4=Zuzana |last5=Salzburger |first5=Walter |last6=Steel |first6=Mike |last7=Bouckaert |first7=Remco |date=2016-08-25 |title=Bayesian Phylogenetic Estimation of Clade Ages Supports Trans-Atlantic Dispersal of Cichlid Fishes |url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/suppl/2016/02/01/038455.DC1/038455-1.pdf |journal=Systematic Biology |volume=66 |issue=1 |type=Supplementary Material |language=en |article-number=syw076 |doi=10.1093/sysbio/syw076 |pmid=28173588 |issn=1063-5157}}</ref>

==Species== The currently recognized species in this genus are:<ref name=FishBase>{{FishBase genus | genus = Lateolabrax| month = December | year = 2019}}</ref> {| class="wikitable " |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px ||''Lateolabrax japonicus'' Cuvier, 1828 ||Japanese sea bass || Western pacific where it occurs from Japan to the South China Sea. |- |120px ||''Lateolabrax latus'' Katayama, 1957 ||Blackfin sea bass ||coast of Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam. |- |}

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Category:Lateolabrax Category:Marine fish genera Category:Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker