Description
Head and body deep, strongly compressed. Mouth protrusible; teeth pointed, slender, crowded together; a fringe of 4 to 6 short cirri ventrally on lower jaw (absent in specimens 25 cm or more in total length). Colour is generally silvery with a greenish tinge on upper half of body and a large orange spot just above base of pectoral fin; 4 to 11 vertical bars of small black spots on upper half of body; margins of dorsal, anal, caudal and pelvic fins greyish black.
Size
Maximum length: 27.5 cm (TL), common length: 16-22 cm (TL)
Diet
Feeds on benthic invertebrates?and bottom living fishes
Utilization
Marketed fresh
Gears
Trawl, handline, trap, gillnet