Lateolabrax
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Lateolabrax is a genus of 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 Ocean. This genus has also been included in family Moronidae (temperate basses) and may be nested within the Polyprionidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyLateolabracidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 15
- Family
- Lateolabracidae
- Collections
- UMMZ, FMNH, ANSP, NRM
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, China, Korea
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Lateolabrax is a genus of 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 Ocean. This genus has also been included in family Moronidae (temperate basses) and may be nested within the Polyprionidae.
One potential fossil genus is also known in Avitolabrax from the earliest Miocene of Japan, which may be ancestral to Lateolabrax.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lateolabrax” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.