[4] They have compressed and elongated bodies, the upper portion is a bluish-silver colour, the belly is silver, and the sides are a yellow-silver shade.

Spawning happens in estuaries and deeper waters between spring and autumn over an extended period; the females can produce between 50,000 and 200.000 eggs over the course of a season.

On the east coast, it occurs around areas north of Sydney then the range follows the coast south around Victoria and around Tasmania and west through South Australia to Western Australia to around areas north of Perth.

Silver trevally are known to frequent rocky areas along bays and coastal waters in depths to 200 m (660 ft).

Adult fish commonly inhabit large bays and inlets and areas of inshore reef and over open substrate composed of gravel or sand.