Labrax

The bass (_Labrax lupus_) heads the list as a plucky and rather difficult opponent.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

It grows to the weight of fifty or sixty pounds, runs in great schools, and in habits and play when hooked resembles the allied species _Labrax lineatus_, the striped bass.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

About two o'clock we stopped, having caught, as near as the Captain could estimate, between one and two hundred pounds of cod, a dog-fish, and eleven sea-bass -- not the striped bass, such as we took off the rocks with a troll line in rough water: that was the _Labrax lineatus_; but the sea-bass, the _Centropristes nigricans_, superior in title, but inferior in every other way to the striped bass.

Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors William Henry Giles Kingston 1847