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Yellowtail Fusilier

Caesio cuning

Also known as: Deep-bodied Fusilier, Giant Fusilier, Red-bellied Fusilier, Redbelly Yellowtail Fusilier, Robust Fusilier, Yellowtail

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2016
Adult
@fishx6 · Sunlover Platform, GBR, Australia · April 20151 / 19
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Overview

Found in schools, in extremely murky waters, over coral and rocky coastal 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
yellow tail

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-West Pacific
  • Exact location · 3
  • Country only · 16
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Found in schools, in extremely murky waters, over coral and rocky coastal reefs.

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Adult photos 19

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderEupercaria incertae sedis
    5. familyCaesionidae
    6. genusCaesio
    7. speciesCaesio cuning (Bloch, 1791)

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    More in the family

    Fusiliers (Caesionidae)