Description: Head and sides silvery sheen, dorsal purplish brown, ventral blue grey; preopercle and opercle margin dark brown; fins whitish to yellow-brown; nape bright yellow (may be present during courtship), caudal fin yellow (in small juveniles). Body slender, depth 3.0-3.5 in SL. Mouth large; lower jaw protruding; maxilla extending to below middle of the eye; interorbital space flattened. Dorsal scales parallel to LL. Dorsal and anal fins without scales. Pectoral fins long reaching to about level of anus. (Ref. 48635, 90105)