trachinotus ovatus is a warm-water pelagic migratory fish. In the juvenile stage, it often inhabits estuaries and bays after the Spring Festival every year. It has strong gregariousness and moves to deep water in the open sea when it is an adult. It is a carnivorous fish, and its larvae and juveniles feed on various plankton and benthic animals, mainly copepod larvae; juveniles and juveniles feed on daphnia, polychaetes, small bivalves and amphipods; young , Adult fish feed on amphipods, bivalves, molluscs, crab larvae, shrimps, and small fish. trachinotus ovatus is distributed in tropical and temperate waters of the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Atlantic Ocean.

trachinotus ovatus is a fish in the family Trevalidae and the genus Pomfret. The body is tall and flat on the side; the tail peduncle is thin and short, flat on the side. The head is small, taller than long, and the occipital crest is obvious. Snout blunt, front end several truncated, snout longer than eye diameter. Small eyes, anterior position. Lipid eyelids are underdeveloped. Nostrils 2 on each side, next to each other. The mouth is small, anteriorly inferior, on the level of the lower edge of the eyes, slightly inclined. The premaxilla can be retracted. Gill openings large. Preopercle and posterior margin of opercle smooth. Gill cover strip 7. The head of trachinotus ovatus is bare except for the scales at the back of the eyes; the body and thorax scales are more or less buried under the skin. The second dorsal and anal fins have a low scale sheath. The front part of the lateral line is slightly wavy, and the straight part begins below the tenth ray of the second dorsal fin. There are no prismatic scales on the lateral line, only sensory canals. The first dorsal fin has a forward prostrate spine (buried under the skin in adult fish) and 6 short spines. The spines of young fish are connected by membranes, and the membranes of adult fish gradually degenerate to become free spines; the base of the second dorsal fin is long, and the front fin Strips elongate and sickle-shaped. Anal fin opposite to second dorsal fin, same shape, with 2 short spines in front. Pectoral fins broad, shorter than head length. Forked caudal fin. Blue-green back, silver belly. trachinotus ovatus has no black spots on the side of the body, and the edge of the odd fin is light black.