Lunar Fusilier
Scientific Name: Caesio lunaris
Species: Fusiliers (Caesionidae)
Other names: Lunar Fusilier Fish, Moon Caesio, Moon Fusilier, Lunar Fusilier Fish, Blue Fusilier, Metallic-blue Fusilier.
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Lunar FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in August 2007
Photographed at: Mirihi - Maldives
Caption: No caption available
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Description
Also known as Lunar Fusilier Fish, Moon Caesio, Moon Fusilier, Lunar Fusilier Fish, Blue Fusilier and Metallic-blue Fusilier.
Found in large schools along inner reef walls and in deep lagoons.
Varies in colour from blue to red with night and day.
They feed on zooplankton.
Length - 35cm
Depth - 0-50m
Widespread Indo-Pacific
Fusiliers are close relatives of snappers, but are much smaller and more slender.
Schools of fusiliers often have other species mixed in.
Although their colour is predominately yellow/blue, at night and when resting their colours change to red/green.
Spotted
The Lunar Fusilier is found in or near the Indo-Pacific region(s) and has been photographed 1 times by user @fishx6
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