Caesionidae

Taxobox
name = Fusilier fishes

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image_caption = Yellow-and-blueback fusiliers and double-lined fusiliers
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
subordo = Percoidei
superfamilia = Percoidea
familia = Caesionidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision ="Caesio" "Dipterygonotus" "Gymnocaesio" "Pterocaesio" See text for species.
synonyms = Caesioninae

The fusilier fishes are a family, Caesionidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes.

pecies

There are 21 species in four genera:
* Genus "Caesio" Lacepède, 1801.
** Blue-and-gold fusilier, "Caesio caerulaurea" Lacepède, 1801.
** Redbelly yellowtail fusilier, "Caesio cuning" (Bloch, 1791).
** Lunar fusilier or moon fusilier, "Caesio lunaris" Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830.
** Striated fusilier, "Caesio striata" Rüppell, 1830.
** Suez fusilier, "Caesio suevica" Klunzinger, 1884.
** Yellow-and-blueback fusilier, "Caesio teres" Seale, 1906.
** Variable-lined fusilier, "Caesio varilineata" Carpenter, 1987.
** Yellowback fusilier, "Caesio xanthonota" Bleeker, 1853.
* Genus "Dipterygonotus" Bleeker, 1849.
** Mottled fusilier, "Dipterygonotus balteatus" (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830).
* Genus "Gymnocaesio" Bleeker, 1876.
** Slender fusilier, "Gymnocaesio gymnoptera" (Bleeker, 1856).
* Genus "Pterocaesio" Bleeker, 1876.
** Capricorn fusilier, "Pterocaesio capricornis" Smith & Smith, 1963.
** Blacktipped fusilier or goldband fusilier, "Pterocaesio chrysozona" (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830).
** Darkbanded fusilier or double lined fusilier, "Pterocaesio digramma" (Bleeker, 1865).
** Wide-band fusilier, "Pterocaesio lativittata" Carpenter, 1987.
** Marr's fusilier, "Pterocaesio marri" Schultz, Herald, Lachner, Welander & Woods, 1953.
** "Pterocaesio monikae" Allen & Erdmann, 2008. [cite journal | journal = Aqua (Miradolo Terme) | volume = 13 | issue = 3-4 | year = 2008 | pages = 163-170 | title = "Pterocaesio monikae", a new species of fusilier (Caesionidae) from western New Guinea (Papua and Papua Barat provinces, Indonesia) | author = Allen & Erdmann]
** Banana fusilier, "Pterocaesio pisang" (Bleeker, 1853).
** Randall's fusilier, "Pterocaesio randalli" Carpenter, 1987.
** One-stripe fusilier, "Pterocaesio tessellata" Carpenter, 1987.
** Dark-banded fusilier, "Pterocaesio tile" (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830).
** Three-stripe fusilier, "Pterocaesio trilineata" Carpenter, 1987.

References

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