Species: Nemipterus japanicus
Small to moderate sized slightly compressed fishes
Mouth terminal; small teeth in bands
Single curvy lateral line with small to moderately large scales
Colour extremely variable may be brownish, reddish, and yellow or greenish.
Grow upto 30cm, most abundant in 25meter depth. It is brightly coloured fish. Golden yellow stripes found along the body.
Found in coastal waters on mud or sand bottoms, usually in schools,
Most of them are carnivorous,feed on small fishes, crustaceans.
Dorsal find contnuous without a notch
Brownish saddle on top of head, yellow band along belly
Caudal fin red, tip or upper lobe and filament bright yellow
Gujarathi - Rata / Lalmachala
Marathi - Rani / Bamni / Chiri / Rane
Konkani - Rane
Kannada - Mudumagalu / Madmal
Malayalam - Milimeen / Puthiyapla kora / Chenkalawa
Tamil - Lomia / Kandal / Changarah
Oriya - Nalliborai / Nallisankara
Bengali - Rani mach
Andamans Is - Rani / Pooma
White meat, moist and tasty. It is lightly coloured with enough flavour. Flesh is very tender raw but firms up when cooked. it flakes apart easily on the plate