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Name : Siganus vermiculatus

Common Name : Kunar
Class : Actinopterygii
Order : Perciformes
Family : Siganidae
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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