Yellowstripe Fusilier
Pterocaesio flavifasciata
Also known as: Bananafish, Double-lined Fusilier
- Bananafish
- Double-lined Fusilier
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.
How to identify
- Fins & Tail
- black fin tips
- Behaviour
- changes colouropen waterschooling
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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Eastern Indian Ocean
- Country only · 8
Found in schools, feeding mid-water in the water column, often with other caesionids.
Adult photos 8
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