Body is very deep, compressed, with a strongly humped back and depth 1.7-1.9 times in standard length; Total gill rakers on first arch 18 to 22; head and breast scaleless; The species is back greyish, belly silvery and many parallel close-set faint bars on back; usually a dark brown saddle on caudal peduncle; axil of pectoral fins grey to black; margin of soft dorsal fin black; both caudal-fin lobes with broad dusky margins;