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Lateolabrax

Summary

Lateolabrax is a genus of commercially important ray-finned fishes known as the Asian seabasses. It is the only genus in the family Lateolabracidae.[3] This genus is native to the coastal waters of the western Pacific Ocean.[4] This genus has also been included in family Moronidae (temperate basses) and may be nested within the Polyprionidae.[5]

Lateolabrax
Japanese seabass (L. japonicus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acropomatiformes
Family: Lateolabracidae
V. G. Springer & Raasch, 1965[2]
Genus: Lateolabrax
Bleeker, 1855[1]
Type species
Labrax japonicus
Cuvier, 1828
Synonyms

One potential fossil genus is also known in Avitolabrax from the earliest Miocene of Japan, which may be ancestral to Lateolabrax.[6]

Species

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The currently recognized species in this genus are:[4]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
  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.

References

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  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Lateolabrax". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  2. ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Lateolabracidae". FishBase. October 2013 version.
  4. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lateolabrax". FishBase. December 2019 version.
  5. ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 435. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
  6. ^ Matschiner, Michael; Musilová, Zuzana; Barth, Julia M. I.; Starostová, Zuzana; Salzburger, Walter; Steel, Mike; Bouckaert, Remco (2016-08-25). "Bayesian Phylogenetic Estimation of Clade Ages Supports Trans-Atlantic Dispersal of Cichlid Fishes" (PDF). Systematic Biology (Supplementary Material): syw076. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syw076. ISSN 1063-5157.