Description
Upper body gray, green or brownish, silvery below; iris iridescent silver or golden. Body colour patterns extend to the fins. Spines slender, pungent and venomous; cheeks scaled; midline of thorax, isthmus and midline of belly without scales. Frightened fish become mottled or with 6 diagonal zones across side.
Size
Maximum length: 22.4 cm (TL), common length: 12-16 cm (TL)
Diet
Feeds by grazing on algae.
Utilization
Marketed fresh and in frozen form
Gears
Gillnet, traps, seine net, trawl