Giant sea bass | |
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A giant sea bass at the California Academy of Sciences | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Polyprionidae |
Genus: | Stereolepis |
Species: | S. gigas
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Binomial name | |
Stereolepis gigas Ayres, 1859
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The giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas) is a fish native to the North Pacific Ocean. Although commonly referred to as a giant sea bass, black sea bass or giant black sea bass, it is actually a wreckfish in the family Polyprionidae rather than in the sea bass family Serranidae.[3]