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Pampanito
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This fish is found from the Gulf of California southward to Panama. It is very common on sandy shores, replacing on the Pacific Coast, T. glaucus, which it much resembles.
It reaches a length of 2 feet, but is not much valued as food.
It may be known from T. glaucus by the difference in profile, the snout being low and very oblique.
Colour, bluish-green above, silvery below; side with 5 short, narrow, vertical blackish bars, the first 2 nearer together than the others, the last 2 sometimes reduced to spots,-these bands always faint in young in which the vertical fins are also much lower; caudal, dorsal, and anal lobes largely of a bright maroon colour, or orange-brown in life, the anterior edge blackish, shading off into pinkish, this colour present at all ages.