[1] As general mullet, fish they have a terminal mouth with thick lips, 2 dorsal fins, a lunate homocercal caudal fin (upper lobe and lower lobe are equal length) and do not have a lateral line organ, which is usually used for detecting changes in their surroundings.

[1] They are mainly found in the wild traveling in schools of fish where they just swim together in a pack without an obvious leader, constant distance between each other, and starting and stopping at the same time.

The sand grey mullet is often fished for both commercial and recreational purposes for their meat and to be used as bait.

[6] They have teeth that are attached to fibrous strands instead of directly to the jaw bone,[7] that help them eat phytoplankton, mollusks, and small crustaceans.

[8] The evolutionary adaption of a flexible jaw allows them to open their mouths larger and have more chance of catching phytoplankton to eat from the water.