Body silvery with 6-8 irregular, faint dusky oblique and vertical bands dorsolaterally and ventrolaterally. U-shaped premaxilla groove mostly without scales. Posterior margin of maxillary beyond a vertical through anterior margin of pupil. Pelvic fin when fresh is semi-transparent or dull yellow color with an indistinct dusky band and dull white distal margin posteriorly; pectoral fins reaches beyond level of anus; caudal fin forked deeply and with long lobes