japonicus, Labrax Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:85 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] Seas of Japan. Holotype: ZMB 3705. •Valid as Percalabrax japonicus (Cuvier 1828) -- (Endruweit 2024:62 [ref. 41040]). •Valid as Lateolabrax japonicus (Cuvier 1828) -- (Berg 1949:1012 [ref. 20662], Okada 1961:634 [ref. 6363], Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:123 [ref. 6441], Paxton et al. 1989:511 [ref. 12442], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:485 [ref. 25598], Zheng 1989:306 [ref. 21202], Gao in Pan et al. 1991:363 [ref. 23876], Yokogawa & Seki 1995:437 [ref. 22172], Zhu 1995:170 [ref. 25213], Iwatsuki & Kimura 1996 [ref. 22266], Evseenko 1996:727 [ref. 24666], Chen et al. 1997:40 [ref. 26476], Cheng & Zhou 1997:251 [ref. 26385] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Yokogawa et al. 1997:51 [ref. 24114], Kim 1997:410 [ref. 24032], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:749 [ref. 24702], Kim & Jun 1997:108 [ref. 25729], Popova 1998:116 [ref. 23588], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:11 [ref. 24670], Sato et al. 1998:39 [ref. 24972], Mizuno et al. 1999:8 [ref. 25311], Nakabo 2000:683 [ref. 25086], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:608 [ref. 25122], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:74 [ref. 25480], Kottelat 2001:58 [ref. 25482], Shimizu 2001:28 [ref. 25799], Wang et al. 2001:213 [ref. 26566] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Kim & Park 2002:330 [ref. 25913], Nakabo 2002:683 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:306, 587 [ref. 26218], Parin 2003:S2 [ref. 28536], Kolpakov et al. 2005:569 [ref. 28368], Hoese 2006:980 [ref. 28998], Kottelat 2013:324 [ref. 32989], Parin et al. 2014:352 [ref. 33547], Bae et al. 2016:106 [ref. 36198], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:72 [ref. 35138], Yokogawa 2019:72 [ref. 36859], Kim et al. 2020:111 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:51 [ref. 37637], Dyldin et al. 2021:47 [ref. 38804], Nakamura et al. 2022:34 [ref. 39934]). Current status: Valid as Lateolabrax japonicus (Cuvier 1828). Lateolabracidae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: China to Korea and Japan; introduced in Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.