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Name : Platax teira

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Class : Actinopterygii
Order : Perciformes
Family : Ephippidae
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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