| False travelly Temporal range: Late Silurian–Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Lactariidae |
| Genus: | Lactarius |
| Species: | L. lactarius |
| Binomial name | |
| Lactarius lactarius (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) |
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This species of fish is of the genus Lactarius in the family Lactariidae. It is also known as the milky travelly or the 'parava', and is found in pelagic-neritic, brackish, and marine waters.
The false trevally is found in the Indo-West Pacific from East Africa to Southeast Asia, north to Japan, and south to Queensland, Australia. It is found in coastal waters down to a to depths of 15 - 100 m. and between 15-90 m. in western Indonesia and, feeds on sand-dwelling animals. This fish is marketed from fisheries
It is covered in silvery grey scales with blue iridescence dorsally, silvery white ventrally; upper part of the gills are covered with a dusky black spot; fins pale yellow and the mouth is large and oblique.