Characteristics
- Small, slender body; somewhat compressed laterally
- Average adult length of 50 mm
- Snout length usually smaller than eye diameter
- Small, angular, terminal mouth
- Large scales; lateral line incomplete
- Straw-coloured, silvery dorsal side with a green-blue iridescence and silvery-white on ventral side
- Prominent black lateral band from tail to snout
- Males develop minute nuptial tubercles on the head, nape and pectoral fin
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