Description
Yellowish silvery or dusky, with a black (or dusky) bar through eye and another dark bar from dorsal-fin origin across rear edge of operculum and pectoral-fin base to belly, where it usually encloses a black blotch, with another smaller black vertical streak often present at origin of anal fin. Median fins dusky yellow, with black margins posteriorly. Pelvic fins yellow, dusky yellow or blackish. Body orbicular and strongly compressed.
Size
Maximum length: 66.5 cm (TL), common length: 30-45 cm (TL)
Diet
Feeds on algae, zooplankton, and benthic invertebrates.
Utilization
Marketed fresh and frozen and used as marine ornamental fish
Gears
Hook and line, traps, spear, trawls