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Variable-lined Fusilier

Caesio varilineata

Also known as: Many-lined Fusilier, Thin-lined Fusilier, Yellow-and-Blue-striped Fusilier, Yellow-striped Fusilier

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2019
Adult
@fishx6 · Mirihi Island Resort, Maldives · February 20071 / 9
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Overview

Found in schools, with other caesionid's, over deep lagoons and seaward 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

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indian Ocean
  • Exact location · 1
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Found in schools, with other caesionid's, over deep lagoons and seaward reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderEupercaria incertae sedis
    5. familyCaesionidae
    6. genusCaesio
    7. speciesCaesio varilineata Carpenter, 1987

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    More in the family

    Fusiliers (Caesionidae)