Body more slender and widened that that of others esparidos, silloné by 12 to 15 vertical lines gray or brown dark. Of gray librea with gilded reflections and strong and widened head. They manage to reach considerable dimensions by rôdant the 50 centimetres. Those young people are definitely coastal, being the adult specimens much more being wary.

We generally give with those esparidos in occasions in which the sea presents confused water or in zones of which the depth is accentuated. The young people are generally grouped in cardúmenes more or less many, being definitely isolated the specimens from large yourlla. Its meat very tasty and is appreciated what transforms it a sought capture. What is towards, muergos and gray shrimps are generally its preferred plate and for their capture we will have relatively fine lines which enable us to avoid their mistrust at the time of that pricked. Harvest does not present a larger difficulty, except this one, to maintain of it a tension adequate in the reel in the case of specimens of considerable size to avoid the ruptures of line.