Description
This species is characterized with distinctive pattern of alternating yellow and black bars. The snout is long and tubular ending in a small mouth. Body is deeply compressed and dorsal spines elongated into a whip-like filament.
Size
Maximum length: 17.5 cm (TL), common length: 14-17 cm (TL)
Diet
Feeds on benthic crustaceans and molluscs
Utilization
It is popular as an aquarium fish
Gears
Trawl, gillnet, trap