Lateolabrax

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

Lateolabrax is a genus of commercially important 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]

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

  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. ^ Cite error: The named reference FishBase was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  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.