sea bass

sea bass

See also: seabass

English

a black sea bass, Centropristis striata

Wikispecies

Etymology

sea (attributive use) + bass (fish)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sēʹbăs, IPA^(key): /ˈsiːbæs/

Noun

sea bass (plural sea bass or sea basses)

1. Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, in several families in Perciformes

Usage notes

• When the referent is multiple fish considered as individual specimina, the usual plural is the invariant sea bass, whereas sea basses predominates for plural senses referring to fishes of multiple species or to the entire category of sea basses collectively.

Derived terms

• barred sand bass (Paralabrax nebulifer, family: Serranidae)
• black sea bass (Centropristis striata, family: Serranidae)
• blackfin sea bass (Lateolabrax latus, family: Lateolabracidae)
• Chilean sea bass (Dissostichus eleginoides, Dissostichus mawsoni, family: Nototheniidae)

• European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax, family: Moronidae)
• giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas, Stereolepis doederleini, family: Polyprionidae)

• Japanese lates sea bass (Lates japonicus, family: Latidae)
• Japanese sea bass (Lateolabrax japonicus, family: Lateolabracidae)
• lates sea bass (Lates calcarifer, family: Latidae)
• spikey sea bass (Hypopterus macropterus, family: Latidae)
• spotted sea bass (Dicentrarchus punctatus, family: Moronidae)
• Waigeo sea bass (Psammoperca waigiensis, family: Latidae)
• white sea bass (Atractoscion nobilis, family: Sciaenidae)

Translations

salt-water fish

Catalan: llobarro (ca) m, llobina (ca) f, llop de mar (ca) m Dalmatian: branzain Finnish: meribassi (fi) French: bar (fr) m German: Wolfsbarsch (de) Irish: bas f, doingean mara m Italian: branzino (it), spigola (it) f

Japanese: 鱸 (ja) (スズキ, suzuki), 鮬 (ja) (セイゴ, seigo) Korean: 농어 (nong-eo) Portuguese: robalo (pt) m Russian: морско́й о́кунь m (morskój ókunʹ) Spanish: lubina Turkish: levrek (tr) Welsh: draenog y môr m