Lateolabrax is a genus of commercially important ray-finned fishes known as the Asian seabasses.
[3] This genus is native to the coastal waters of the western Pacific Ocean.
[4] This genus has also been included in family Moronidae (temperate basses) and may be nested within the Polyprionidae.
[5] One potential fossil genus is also known in Avitolabrax from the earliest Miocene of Japan, which may be ancestral to Lateolabrax.
[6] The currently recognized species in this genus are:[4]