Name : Platax teira

Class : Actinopterygii

Order : Perciformes

Family : Ephippidae

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