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.

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)

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.)
  - Lateolabrax japonicus (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

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