Yellowback Fusilier
Scientific Name: Caesio xanthonota
Species: Fusiliers (Caesionidae)
Other names: Yellowtop Fusilier and Yellowfin Fusilier
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in May 2008
Photographed at: Mirihi Island Resort - Maldives
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in August 2006
Photographed at: Makunudhoo Island Resort - Maldives
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in June 2010
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in May 2008
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in November 2006
Photographed at: Makunudhoo Island Resort - Maldives
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in February 2007
Photographed at: Mirihi Island Resort - Maldives
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in August 2007
Photographed at: Mirihi - Maldives
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in August 2007
Photographed at: Mirihi - Maldives
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in August 2007
Photographed at: Gan - Maldives
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in August 2007
Photographed at: Makunudu - Maldives
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in May 2008
Photographed at: Mirihi Island Resort - Maldives
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in May 2007
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in May 2008
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in May 2008
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in May 2008
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @fishx6 in May 2008
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Yellowback FusilierUploaded by: @paul in September 2010
Photographed at: Zanzibar Mnemba island - Tanzania
Caption: large fish just above sandy bottom
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Description
Also known as Yellowtop Fusilier and Yellowfin Fusilier.
Found in large schools along coastal inner and outer reefs.
Varies in colour from blue to red with night and day.
They feed on zooplankton.
Length -20cm
Depth - 2-50m
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.
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The Yellowback Fusilier is found in or near the Indo-Pacific region(s) and has been photographed 29 times by users @fishx6 @paul
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