Asian sea perch

About this species

The Japanese sea bass is a species of catadromous marine ray-finned fish from the Asian sea bass family Lateolabracidae. It is found in the Western Pacific.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Japanese sea bass”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 20 records
February: 21 records
March: 32 records
April: 22 records
May: 33 records
June: 28 records
July: 65 records
August: 55 records
September: 60 records
October: 42 records
November: 25 records
December: 17 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 0–33 m · Deepest record: 265 m

0–10 m: 81 records
10–20 m: 10 records
20–30 m: 8 records
30–40 m: 21 records
40–50 m: 0 records
50–60 m: 0 records
60–70 m: 0 records
70–80 m: 0 records
80–90 m: 0 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 0 records
110+ m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 13–29 °C

12–14 °C: 1 records
14–16 °C: 3 records
16–18 °C: 1 records
18–20 °C: 162 records
20–22 °C: 5 records
22–24 °C: 3 records
24–26 °C: 4 records
26–28 °C: 1 records
28–30 °C: 1 records

Photos

(c) Σ64, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) りなべる, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by りなべる · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Yoshihiro Tokue, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Daniel J. Layton, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Wensen Wang, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
(c) りなべる, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) りなべる, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Asian sea perch, Asian seabass, Japanese sea perch, Japanese seabass, Japanese sea bass, Japan sea bass, Perch

Names in 1 more languages

Japanese: Suzuki, スズキ

Other scientific names: Holocentrum maculatum, Labrax japonicus, Lateolabrax japonicum, Percalabrax japonicus, Percalabrax tokionensis

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
525 open-data records from 1900 to 2024.
Species data updated November 4, 2026.