Sea bass
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.
Fish referred to as sea bass include the following:
Family Serranidae
Family Serranidae- Genus Paralabrax
- * Barred sand bass, lives mainly off the coast of California.
- * Spotted sand bass, also known as the spotted bay bass.
- * Kelp/Calico bass
- Genus Centropristis
- *Black sea bass is found on the East Coast of the United States.
- Genus Caesioperca
- *Butterfly perch is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the southwest Pacific Ocean, including southern Australia and New Zealand.
- Genus Caprodon
- *Pink maomao is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean, including Australia and New Zealand.
- Genus Epinephelus
- *Potato cod, also known as the potato bass or potato grouper, is a large reef fish found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
- * Dusky grouper
- * Dogtooth grouper
- Genus Hypoplectrodes
- *Redbanded perch is found in southeastern Australia and the North Island and northern South Island of New Zealand.
- Genus Trachypoma
- *Toadstool groper is found in the southwest Pacific Ocean.
- Genus Serranus
- *Serranus cabrilla
- *''Serranus scriba''
Other
- Family Latidae
- * Genus Hypopterus
- ** Hypopterus macropterus
- * Genus Lates
- ** Lates calcarifer
- ** Lates japonicus Katayama & Y. Taki, 1984
- * Genus Psammoperca
- ** Psammoperca waigiensis
- Family Nototheniidae
- * Genus Dissostichus
- ** Dissostichus eleginoides
- ** Dissostichus mawsoni
- Family Moronidae
- * Genus Dicentrarchus
- ** Dicentrarchus labrax - European sea bass or sea dace
- ** Dicentrarchus punctatus - spotted sea bass
- Family Stereolepididae
- * Genus Stereolepis giant sea bass, native to the northern Pacific Ocean)
- ** Stereolepis gigas
- ** Stereolepis doederleini
- Family Lateolabracidae
- * Genus Lateolabrax
- **Lateolabrax japonicus
- ** Lateolabrax latus Katayama, 1957
- Family Sciaenidae
- * Genus Atractoscion
- ** White seabass, along the Pacific coast of the United States
- * Genus Pseudotolithus
- **Pseudotolithus senegalensis
- ** ''Pseudotolithus typus''