Slender Fusilier
Gymnocaesio gymnoptera
Also known as: Shoaling Fusilier, Shoaling Slender Fusilier
- Shoaling Fusilier
- Shoaling Slender Fusilier
Overview
Found in large schools, with other members of the same genus, 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.
How to identify
- Pattern
- brown stripesstripes
- Fins & Tail
- red fin tips
- Behaviour
- schooling
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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Indo-West Pacific
Found in large schools, with other members of the same genus, over coastal coral reefs.
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