Yellowbelly Threadfin Bream has moderately elongate and compressed body; posterior margin of suborbital and lower preopercular margin not serrated; suborbital spine absent; pectoral fin not reaching a vertical through anal fin origin and three transverse scale rows on preopercle. Colour of body is pinkish dorsally, silvery ventrally; yellow belly; pink caudal fin, upper lobe and yellow filament. It usually occurs on sandy or muddy bottoms and it feeds mainly on crustaceans, small fishes and cephalopods in adults and copepods, ostracods and amphipods in young.