Caesionidae
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 Yellow-and-blueback fusiliers and double-lined fusiliers
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Caesioninae |
The fusilier fishes are a family, Caesionidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes.
[edit] Species
There are 21 species in four genera:
- Genus Caesio Lacepède, 1801.
- Blue-and-gold fusilier, Caesio caerulaurea Lacepède, 1801.
- Redbelly yellowtail fusilier, Caesio cuning (Bloch, 1791).
- Lunar fusilier or moon fusilier, Caesio lunaris Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830.
- Striated fusilier, Caesio striata Rüppell, 1830.
- Suez fusilier, Caesio suevica Klunzinger, 1884.
- Yellow-and-blueback fusilier, Caesio teres Seale, 1906.
- Variable-lined fusilier, Caesio varilineata Carpenter, 1987.
- Yellowback fusilier, Caesio xanthonota Bleeker, 1853.
- Genus Dipterygonotus Bleeker, 1849.
- Mottled fusilier, Dipterygonotus balteatus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830).
- Genus Gymnocaesio Bleeker, 1876.
- Slender fusilier, Gymnocaesio gymnoptera (Bleeker, 1856).
- Genus Pterocaesio Bleeker, 1876.
- Capricorn fusilier, Pterocaesio capricornis Smith & Smith, 1963.
- Blacktipped fusilier or goldband fusilier, Pterocaesio chrysozona (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830).
- Darkbanded fusilier or double lined fusilier, Pterocaesio digramma (Bleeker, 1865).
- Wide-band fusilier, Pterocaesio lativittata Carpenter, 1987.
- Marr's fusilier, Pterocaesio marri Schultz, Herald, Lachner, Welander & Woods, 1953.
- Pterocaesio monikae Allen & Erdmann, 2008.[1]
- Banana fusilier, Pterocaesio pisang (Bleeker, 1853).
- Randall's fusilier, Pterocaesio randalli Carpenter, 1987.
- One-stripe fusilier, Pterocaesio tessellata Carpenter, 1987.
- Dark-banded fusilier, Pterocaesio tile (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830).
- Three-stripe fusilier, Pterocaesio trilineata Carpenter, 1987.
[edit] References
- Caesionidae (TSN 643061). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 26 April 2008.
- ^ Allen & Erdmann (2008). "Pterocaesio monikae, a new species of fusilier (Caesionidae) from western New Guinea (Papua and Papua Barat provinces, Indonesia)". Aqua (Miradolo Terme) 13 (3-4): 163-170.
