Description: Body depth 21/3-21/2 times in TL, head length 31/2-4 times; head as long as deep, upper profile slightly concave; its lower jaw projecting neyod upper; snout much shorter than eye, which is 21/2-2 2/3 times in HL and equals interorbital width; maxillary extending to below anterior border of eye; outer premaxillary teeth 4, alternating with the 8 inner ones; lower jaw teeth 8; gill rakers rather long, lower anterior arch 16-18; D II,8 originating immediately behind vertical of base of ventral, at equal distance from end of snout and from caudal, longest ray as long as head; A III-IV, 19-20; pectoral little shorterr than head, reaching or nearly reaching than ventral; caudal fin forked with pointed lobes; caudal peduncle as long as deep; scales 29-30 51/2 / 31/2; scales between lateral line and root of ventral 2; reddish, with a silvery lateral band, which becomes blackish on the caudal peduncle and extends as a black band on the caudal fin (Ref. 1878).