Description
The species is characterised with yellowish silvery or dusky orbicular and deeply compressed body with a black bar through eye and from dorsal-fin origin across rear edge of operculum and from pectoral-fin base to belly. Median fins dusky yellow, with black margins. Pelvic fins are yellow/blackish.
Size
Maximum length: 48.7 cm (TL), common length: 30-40 cm (TL)
Diet
Feeds on crustaceans and fishes
Utilization
It is used as an aquarium fish and small quanity marketed in chilled/frozen form
Gears
Trawl, gillnet, hook and line