# Lateolabrax

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{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Suzuki201302.jpg
| image_caption = [Japanese seabass](/source/Japanese_seabass) (''L. japonicus'')
| parent_authority = [V. G. Springer](/source/Victor_Gruschka_Springer) & [Raasch](/source/Maynard_S._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](/source/Pieter_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](/source/Georges_Cuvier), 1828
| synonyms = * ''Percalabrax'' <small>[Temminck](/source/Coenraad_Jacob_Temminck) & [Schlegel](/source/Hermann_Schlegel), 1843</small>
}}

'''''Lateolabrax''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [commercially](/source/commercial_fisheries) important [ray-finned fish](/source/ray-finned_fish)es 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](/source/Pacific_Ocean).<ref name=FishBase/>  This genus has also been included in family [Moronidae](/source/Moronidae) (temperate basses) and may be nested within the [Polyprionidae](/source/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](/source/Avitolabrax)'' from the earliest [Miocene](/source/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>
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! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution
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|120px ||''[Lateolabrax japonicus](/source/Lateolabrax_japonicus)'' <small>[Cuvier](/source/Georges_Cuvier), 1828</small> ||Japanese sea bass || Western pacific where it occurs from Japan to the South China Sea.
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|120px ||''[Lateolabrax latus](/source/Lateolabrax_latus)'' <small>[Katayama](/source/Masao_Katayama), 1957</small> ||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

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