Aliases: silver pomfret, staggering fish, flat fish, baichang, changhou fish, chang rat, sliced fish, forked fish.
Pomfret properties; the meat of pomfrets of the pomfret family. The body shape of the pomfret is short and tall, with a flattened pole and a slightly diamond-shaped shape. The body length is about 20 cm. The head is smaller and flattened and high. The snout is short, rounded and blunt, slightly protruding before the lower jaw. The eyes are small in the lateral position, the eye septum is large arc-shaped bulge, the nostrils are small, the beauty side is 2, the anterior nostrils are round, and the posterior nostrils are cracked. The mouth is small, each jaw has a slender tooth, and the scales are small, round, and easy to fall off. The dorsal and arm fins are homomorphic and have no ventral fins. Body silver white. The caudal fin is darker in color and most of the scales have tiny black dots. Pomfrets mostly inhabit the lower and middle layers of the offshore sea. Mostly small fish, diatoms, etc. are fed, and the spawning period is from May to June. It is more distributed in the South China Sea and the East China Sea, and there are fewer yellow and Bohai Seas.