Pompano. Pomfret (butterfish), a collective name for the fishes of the genus Pomfret in the family Pomfretidae of the order Perciformes of the order Scleractinia. Also known as car flatfish, mirror fish. Superior seafood economic fish. Intertidal yellow striped fish is pomfret. Body oval, laterally compressed; caudal peduncle short, head smaller, short and blunt kiss, small eyes, small mouth, anterior. The teeth of both jaws are minute, 1 row. Palatine, plow bone and tongue are toothless. Esophagus with a lateral capsule, capsule with papillae, densely covered with small spines, base with spoke-like bony roots. Gill rakers granular. Body covered with small round scales. Lateral line supra-lateral, parallel to dorsal margin.