Halwa

Name : Platax teira

Class : Actinopterygii

Order : Perciformes

Family : Ephippidae

Description :

Yellowish silvery or dusky, with a black (or dusky) bar through eye and another dark bar from dorsal-fin origin across rear edge of operculum and pectoral-fin base to belly, where it usually encloses a black blotch, with another smaller black vertical streak often present at origin of anal fin. Median fins dusky yellow, with black margins posteriorly. Pelvic fins yellow, dusky yellow or blackish. Body orbicular and strongly compressed.

Size

Maximum length: 66.5 cm (TL), common length: 30-45 cm (TL)

Diet

Feeds on algae, zooplankton, and benthic invertebrates.

Utilization

Marketed fresh and frozen and used as marine ornamental fish

Gears

Hook and line, traps, spear, trawls