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Yellowstripe Fusilier

Pterocaesio flavifasciata

Also known as: Bananafish, Double-lined Fusilier

Adult
@fishx6 · Mirihi Island Resort, Maldives · May 20081 / 8
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Overview

Found in schools, feeding mid-water in the water column, often with other caesionids. Varies in colour, from blue to red with night and day.
Eastern Indian Ocean - Indonesia, Maldives

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 · Eastern Indian Ocean
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Found in schools, feeding mid-water in the water column, often with other caesionids.

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Adult photos 8

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderEupercaria incertae sedis
    5. familyCaesionidae
    6. genusPterocaesio
    7. speciesPterocaesio flavifasciata Allen & Erdmann, 2006

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    More in the family

    Fusiliers (Caesionidae)