There is no difference between white pomfret and silver pomfret. Silver pomfret is commonly known as pomfret, also called white pomfret.

The body is nearly round, with flat and high sides; the dorsal edge is raised. The snout is short and blunt. The orbital septum is wide. The mouth is small, with horizontal clefts; the upper and lower jaws are approximately equal in length; the maxilla reaches below the edge of the eye; the upper and lower jaws have fine-pointed bristly teeth arranged in a band; the hoe bones and palatine bones have no teeth. The gill openings are narrow and long; the gill rakers are short and thin; they have pseudo-gills. The body is covered with medium and large weak ctenophyll scales, and the head and back are covered with fine scales; the pelvic fins have axillary scales, and the bases of the dorsal and anal fins have sheath scales; the lateral lines are arc-shaped. The hard spines and soft rays of the dorsal fin are deeply notched, with a forward flat spine in front, and the 3rd to 5th spines are extended into filaments; the first spine of the pelvic fin is extended; the caudal fin is slightly biconcave. The body is greenish-brown, and the abdomen is light white; there are 6 dark brown horizontal bands on the sides of the body; the scale edges have black lines. Each fin is light brown.