''Avitolabrax'' is an extinct genus of marine

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

that lived during the early part of the

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and mea ...

epoch. It has a single known species, ''A. denticulatus'', from the Siramizu Formation of Fukushima, Japan. Initially described as a " serranid" when that family was thought to be more expansive, later studies suggest that it may be ancestral to the extant genus ''

Lateolabrax ''Lateolabrax'' is a genus of commercial fisheries, commercially important ray-finned fishes known as the Asian seabasses. It is the only genus in the family Lateolabracidae. This genus is native to the coastal waters of the western Pacific Oce ...

'', potentially making it the earliest member of the family Lateolabracidae.

References

† Miocene fish of Asia Fossils of Japan Fossil taxa described in 1942 Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera {{Acropomatiformes-stub