sea bass

{{short description|Index of marine fish with the same common name}}

Sea bass is a common name for a variety of species of marine fish. Many fish species of various families have been called sea bass.

In Ireland and the United Kingdom, the fish sold and consumed as sea bass is exclusively the European bass, Dicentrarchus labrax.

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Sometimes referred to as sea bass include the following:

Family Serranidae

Genus Paralabrax
Barred sand bass (Paralabrax nebulifer) lives mainly off the coast of California.
Genus Centropristis
Black sea bass (Centropristis striata) is found on the East Coast of the United States.
Genus Caesioperca
Butterfly perch (Caesioperca Lepidoptera) is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the southwest Pacific Ocean, including southern Australia and New Zealand.
Genus Caprodon
Pink maomao (Caprodon longimanus) is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean, including Australia and New Zealand.
Genus Epinephelus
Potato cod (Epinephelus tukula), also known as the potato bass or potato grouper, is 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) is found in southeastern Australia and the North Island and northern South Island of New Zealand.
Genus Trachypoma
Toadstool groper (Trachypoma macracanthus) is found in the southwest Pacific Ocean.
Genus Serranus
Serranus cabrilla (Comber) (Linnaeus, 1758)
Serranus scriba (Painted comber) (Linnaeus, 1758)

Family Latidae (also called Asian sea bass, whose range is the Indo-Pacific, from Australia to India)
Genus Hypopterus (spikey seabass)
Hypopterus macropterus
Genus Lates (Lates sea bass)
Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) (barramundi, Lates sea bass)
Lates japonicus Katayama & Y. Taki, 1984 (Japanese lates sea bass)
Genus Psammoperca (Waigeo sea bass)
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 sea bass)
Dicentrarchus labrax - European sea bass or sea dace
Dicentrarchus punctatus - spotted sea bass
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 sea bass, a fish commonly used in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese cuisines, is also commonly called suzuki.)
Lateolabrax japonicus (G. Cuvier, 1828) (Japanese sea bass)
Lateolabrax latus Katayama, 1957 (blackfin sea bass)
Family Sciaenidae
Genus Atractoscion (white sea bass)
White seabass (Atractoscion nobilis, family Sciaenidae), along the Pacific coast of the United States
Genus Pseudotolithus
Pseudotolithus senegalensis (cassava croaker)
Pseudotolithus typus (longneck croaker)