Threestripe Fusilier
Scientific Name: Pterocaesio trilineata
Species: Fusiliers (Caesionidae)
Other names: Striped Fusilier, Three-Lined Fusilier, Three-Striped Fusilier.
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Threestripe FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in August 2007
Photographed at: Makunudu - Maldives
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Threestripe FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in August 2007
Photographed at: Makunudu - Maldives
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Threestripe FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in August 2007
Photographed at: Makunudu - Maldives
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Threestripe FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in July 2009
Photographed at: Clam Beds - Great Barrier Reef - Australia
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Description
Also known as Striped Fusilier, Three-Lined Fusilier and Three-Striped Fusilier.
Found in schools on inner reefs and silty lagoons.
Varies in colour from blue to red with night and day.
They feed on zooplankton.
Length - 16cm
Depth - 2-20m
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 Threestripe Fusilier is found in or near the Indo-Pacific region(s) and has been photographed 4 times by user @fishx6
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