Sea bass

For other fish called "bass", see bass (fish)

Sea bass is a common fish name. Many fish species of various families have been called sea bass, including:

Family Serranidae

Family Serranidae

• Genus Paralabrax
  • Barred sand bass (Paralabrax nebulifer), lives mainly off the coast of California.
• Genus Centropristis
  • Black sea bass (Centropristis striata), whose range is the eastern coast of the United States
• Genus Caesioperca
  • Butterfly perch (Caesioperca lepidoptera), found in the eastern Indian Ocean, and southwest Pacific Ocean including southern Australia and New Zealand
• Genus Caprodon
  • Pink maomao (Caprodon longimanus), found in the eastern Indian Ocean, and southern Pacific Ocean including Australia and New Zealand
• Genus Epinephelus
  • Potato cod (Epinephelus tukula), also known as the potato bass or potato grouper, a large reef fish found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans
  • Dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus)
  • Dogtooth grouper (Epinephelus caninus)
• Genus Hypoplectrodes
  • Redbanded perch (Hypoplectrodes huntii), found in southeastern Australia, and the North Island and northern South Island of New Zealand
• Genus Trachypoma
  • Toadstool groper (Trachypoma macracanthus), found in the southwest Pacific Ocean
• Genus Serranus
  • Serranus cabrilla (Comber) (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Serranus scriba (Painted comber) (Linnaeus, 1758)

Other

• Family Latidae (also called Asian seabass, whose range is the Indo-Pacific, from Australia to India)
  • Genus Hypopterus (Spikey seabass)
    • Hypopterus macropterus
  • Genus Lates (Lates seabass)
    • Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) (Barramundi, Lates seabass)
    • Lates japonicus Katayama & Y. Taki, 1984 (Japanese lates seabass)
  • Genus Psammoperca (Waigeo seabass)
    • Psammoperca waigiensis
• Family Nototheniidae
  • Genus Dissostichus (Chilean sea bass, a marketing term for the Patagonian toothfish)
    • Dissostichus eleginoides
    • Dissostichus mawsoni
• Family Moronidae
  • Genus Dicentrarchus (European seabass)
    • Dicentrarchus labrax - European seabass or sea dace
    • Dicentrarchus punctatus - Spotted seabass
• Family Polyprionidae
  • Genus Stereolepis (Giant sea bass, native to the northern Pacific Ocean)
    • Stereolepis gigas (Giant sea bass)
    • Stereolepis doederleini
• Family Lateolabracidae
  • Genus Lateolabrax (Japanese seabass, Suzuki (fish), a fish commonly used in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese cuisines. It is also commonly called Suzuki.)
    • G. Cuvier, 1828) (Japanese seabass)
    • Lateolabrax latus Katayama, 1957 (Blackfin seabass)
• Family Sciaenidae
  • Genus Atractoscion (White seabass)
    • White seabass (Atractoscion nobilis, family Sciaenidae), along the Pacific coast of the United States
  • Genus Pseudotolithus
    • Pseudotolithus senegalensis - cassava croaker
    • Pseudotolithus typus - longneck croaker

See also

• Sea bass
• The term bass also refers to a number of freshwater sport fish.

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