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Bony fish

Double-lined Fusilier

Pterocaesio digramma

Also known as: Blacktip Fusilier, Black-tipped Fusilier, Dark-banded Fusilier, Doubleline Fusilier, Doublestripe Fusilier, Twostripe Fusilier, Yellow-striped Fusilier

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2016
Adult
@greatwhite · Lady Musgrave Island, Australia · February 20121 / 11
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Overview

Found in schools, over coastal coral reefs. Varies in colour, from blue to red with night and day.
They feed midwater on zooplankton.

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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How to identify

Fins & Tail
black fin tips

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Pacific
  • Exact location · 1
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LIVES IN

Found in schools, over coastal coral reefs.

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Adult photos 11

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderEupercaria incertae sedis
    5. familyCaesionidae
    6. genusPterocaesio
    7. speciesPterocaesio digramma (Bleeker, 1864)

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    More in the family

    Fusiliers (Caesionidae)