Summary: short, and the others are forked. The lateral line is straight and extends to the end of the tail. The scales are imbricated and entire on the edge. The body is compressed and slopes gradually from the head to the tail. The back fin is behind the middle, and its first ray is very short, followed by twelve branched rays. The pectoral fins are long, the first ray reaching to the middle of the tail, and the rest are much shorter, the last being undivided. In each ventral fin, one ray is undivided, and the others are forked. The fin behind the vent contains seventy-four rays, with three undivided and the rest forked, the last one being the shortest. The fail fin is deeply divided, the upper lobe being blunt and the lower one sharp. Overall, this species has nineteen distinct rays in the caudal fin.