''Lateolabrax'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of commercially important

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 ...

es 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 Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

. This genus has also been included in family

Moronidae The Moronidae is a family of percomorph fishes, commonly called the temperate basses, in the order Moroniformes. These fishes are found in the freshwaters of North America and the coastal waters of the North Atlantic. Taxonomy Moronidae was f ...

(temperate basses) and may be nested within the Polyprionidae. One potential fossil genus is also known in ''

Avitolabrax ''Avitolabrax'' is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early part of the Miocene epoch. It has a single known species, ''A. denticulatus'', from the Siramizu Formation of Fukushima, Japan. Initially described as a ...

'' from the earliest

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 ...

of Japan, which may be ancestral to ''Lateolabrax''.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:

References

Marine fish genera Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker {{Acropomatiformes-stub