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| Fusilier fishes | |
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| Yellow-and-blueback fusiliers and double-lined fusiliers | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Percoidei |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Caesionidae |
| Genera | |
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Caesio |
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| Synonyms | |
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Caesioninae |
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The fusilier fishes are a family, Caesionidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. They are related to the snappers, but adapted for feeding on plankton, rather than on larger prey.
They are cylindrical, streamlined fishes, of up to 60 centimetres (24 in) in length. Their upper jaws are extensible, and adapted for picking plankton.[1]
[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.[2]
- 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". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=643061. Retrieved 26 April 2008.
- Carpenter, K.E. (1987) "Revision of the Indo-Pacific fish family Caesionidae (Lutjanoidea), with descriptions of five new species." Indo-Pacific Fishes (15):56
- ^ Johnson, G.D. & Gill, A.C. (1998). Paxton, J.R. & Eschmeyer, W.N.. ed. Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 184. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
- ^ 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.
