Author: (Gray, 1831)
FBname: Smallhead hairtail
Comments: Inhabits coastal waters and often comes near the surface at night.  Enters estuaries (Ref. 1479).  Feeds on a wide variety of small fishes, squids and crustaceans.  Marketed mainly in dried and salted forms (sometimes fresh), mixed with other trichiurids.  Caught mainly with shore seines, bag nets and coastal bottom trawls in coastal waters down to about 50 m in West Bengal to Madras and around Bombay of India.