The pomfret fish aliases are mirror fish, catfish ("Linhai foreign objects Zhi"), Changhou turtle, Changmu ("Materia Medica Gleanings"), dog sleepy fish ("Lingtian Record of the different"), pomfret bream ("Medical Forest Compilation"), mirror fish, flatfish ("Yellow Bohai Sea Fish Survey Report"), Baichang ("Chinese Animal Atlas - Fish"), forked slice of fish (Jiangsu, Zhejiang), and so on. The body is short and tall, extremely laterally compressed and slightly diamond-shaped. The head is small, the snout rounded, the mouth small, the teeth fine. Ventral fin disappears in adult fish. The caudal fin is quite y forked and the lower lobe is longer. The body is silvery white, slightly greenish gray in the upper part. Feeds on crustaceans etc.
Inhabitat: offshore in the lower middle layer. Feeds on small fish and diatoms. The lower part of the edge of the eye, each of the two jaws has 1 row of fine teeth, spawning period from May to June. Distribution of China's coast, the South China Sea and the East China Sea is more, the Yellow and Bohai Seas less. Ecology: It is an offshore pelagic fish. Often inhabiting in the water depth of 30-70m slow tide sea area. It feeds on small fish, jellyfish and diatoms. It has seasonal swimming phenomenon and its reproductive period is from May to June. Carrying 11.7-21.8 million eggs, eggs floating, diameter 1.6-1.9mm. pomfret is a tropical and subtropical food and ornamental large tropical fish.