sea perch

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In New Zealand: A scorpænoid fish, Sebastapistes cottoides.
• noun A labroid fish, Pseudolabrus celidotus.
• noun In Australia, Latris antarcticus, a fish of the family Cirrhitidæ.
• noun A percoideous fish, Labrax lupus, or some species of that genus; a sea-dace; a bass.
• noun A serranoid fish of the genus Serranus; any serranoid.
• noun The redfish or rose-fish, Sebastes viviparus or marinus. See cut under Sebastes.
• noun Same as cunner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• The European bass (Roccus lupus syn. Labrax lupus); -- called also sea dace.
• The cunner.
• The sea bass.
• The name is applied also to other species of fishes.