Seatrout

Colour greyish above and changing abruptly to silvery below. Back and upper sides sometimes with very faint irregular rows of spots. Dorsal fin dusky, other fins pale to yellowish. Mouth large, oblique, lower jaw projecting. Upper jaw with a pair of large canine-like teeth at tip. Lower jaw with a row of sharp enlarged inner-row teeth, widely spaced. Chin without barbels or pores. Snout with 2 marginal pores. Gas bladder with a pair of straight, horn-like anterior appendages. Soft portion of dorsal fin covered with small scales on basal half of in (Ref 51721).

Dorsal spines (total): 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 26 - 31; Analspines: 2; Analsoft rays: 8 - 11; Vertebrae: 27

Feeds mainly on fish and benthic organisms (Ref. 1657).

Occurs usually over sandy bottoms in inshore waters along beaches and in river mouths. Feeds mainly on crustaceans and fishes.

fisheries: minor commercial; price category: medium; price reliability: questionable: based on ex-vessel price for species in this genus