it is an important commercial species within its range and is sometimes found in the aquarium trade where it is known as "target fish" for the pattern visible from above.

[8] Juveniles of T. jarbua can be numerous in intertidal area where there are sandy and are frequently recorded in tidal pools.

[10] The juveniles have been reported as being territorial and to have excavated craters in sand, possibly helping them to keep their position as the tide ebbs and flows.

The description could have been by either Forsskål or by Carsten Niebuhr but it was compiled by the Danish naturalist Johan Christian Fabricius (1745-1808).

It was used in the combination Sciaena jarbua in Descriptiones animalium and according to the authorship rules, should correctly be stated as Fabricius [ex Forsskål] in Niebuhr, 1775.

[14] Some authorities consider that the taxon currently named Terapon jarbua which has a wide geographic range is actually likely to be more than one species.