Yellowback Fusilier

Scientific Name: Caesio xanthonota
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 40cm
Identification: Silvery blue with yellow nape, back and tail.
Favourite: Form large aggregations, often mix with other fusiliers.
Hide-out: Upper edge of steep slopes and around coastal patch reefs and seaward reefs to 30m.
Location: Indo-Asian Pacific - E. Africa to Indonesia.

Yellowtail Fusilier

Scientific Name: Caesio cuning
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 50cm
Identification: Silvery blue to blue-green with yellow forked tail; deeper body than other fusiliers.
Favourite: Form large aggregations.
Hide-out: Upper edge of steep slopes and around coastal patch reefs, often in silty areas with reduced visibility to 30m.
Location: Asian-West Pacific - E. India and Sri Lanka to Vanuatu. S.W. Japan to Palau, N.W. Australia and Great Barrier Reef.

Variable-Lined Fusilier

Scientific Name: Caesio varilineata
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 40cm
Identification: Silvery blue with 2-6 yellow stripes; black streak near tip of each tail lobe.
Favourite: Form aggregations, often mix with other fusiliers.
Hide-out: Upper edge of steep slopes and around coastal patch reefs and outer reefs in 2-25m.
Location: Indian Ocean - Red Sea and E. Africa to N.W. Sumatra in Indonesia.

Scissortail Fusilier

Scientific Name: Caesio caerulaurea
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 35cm
Identification: Silvery blue; yellow stripe on side from head to tail, dark streak on each lobe of forked tail.
Favourite: Form large aggregations, often mix with other fusiliers.
Hide-out: Upper edge of steep slopes and around coastal patch reefs and seaward reefs to 30m.
Location: Indo-West Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to Samoa. S.W. Japan to Micronesia and Great Barrier Reef.

Lunar Fusilier

Scientific Name: Caesio lunaris
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 40cm
Identification: Silvery blue; black tip on tail lobes, row of black dashes on arching lateral line. Young - Yellow tail with black tips.
Favourite: Form large aggregations, often mix with other fusiliers.
Hide-out: Upper edge of steep slopes, coastal patch and seaward reefs to 30m.
Location: Indo-West Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to Solomon Is. and Fiji. S.W. Japan to Palau and Great Barrier Reef.

Mottled Fusilier

Scientific Name: Dipterygonatus balteatus
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 14cm
Identification: Brownish to bronze back, silvery below; pair of thin dark wavy stripes on back and pale tan stripe below, dark tail tips.
Favourite: Form aggregations, often mix with other fusiliers.
Hide-out: Coastal, lagoons and seaward reefs to 20m.
Location: Indo-Asian Pacific - Gulf of Aden and Somalia to Solomon Is. Taiwan to Australia.

Slender Fusilier

Scientific Name: Gymnocaesio gymnoptera
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 18cm
Identification: Bluish green back, silvery pink to reddish below; 2-3 diffuse wavy stripes on back and narrow yellow to brown stripe below, dark tail tips.
Favourite: Form aggregations, often mix with other fusiliers.
Hide-out: Coral reefs in 2-20m.
Location: Indo-West Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to Fiji, north to Philippines.

Threestripe Fusilier

Scientific Name: Pterocaesio trilineata
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 20cm
Identification: Silvery; three yellowish to brownish stripes alternate with three bluish stripes on back; dark tail tips.
Favourite: Form aggregations, often mix with other fusiliers.
Hide-out: Steep slopes, shallow coastal, lagoon and seaward reefs to 30m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - E. Africa to Fiji, Line Is. and French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to E. Australia.

Ruddy Fusilier

Scientific Name: Pterocaesio pisang
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 21cm
Identification: Vary from a solid color to combinations of blue to blue-green to silvery red; red to black tail tips, straight thin black lateral line.
Favourite: Form aggregations, often mix with other fusiliers.
Hide-out: Steep slopes and shallow coastal and seaward reefs to 30m.
Location: Indo-West Pacific - E. Africa to reefs offshore N.W. Australia, Philippines and Fiji.

Randall's Fusilier

Scientific Name: Pterocaesio randalli
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 25cm
Identification: Silvery blue to reddish blue or blue-green; large elongate yellow blotch on forebody, black to reddish tail tips.
Favourite: Form aggregations, often mix with other fusiliers.
Hide-out: Steep slopes and coastal, lagoon and seaward reefs to 30m.
Location: East Indo-Asian Pacific - E. Andaman Sea to Molucca Is. in Indonesia and S. Philippines.

Goldband Fusilier

Scientific Name: Pterocaesio chrysozona
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 21cm
Identification: Silvery brownish blue to green back and pale lower body; wide yellow stripe from eye tapers toward tail base, dark tail tips.
Favourite: Form aggregations.
Hide-out: Coastal, lagoons and outer reefs in 2-25m.
Location: Indo-Asian Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to Papua New Guinea. S.W. Japan to Australia.

Bluestreak Fusilier

Scientific Name: Pterocaesio tile
Family: Fusiliers - Caesionidae
Maximum Size: 25cm
Identification: Silvery blue; several dark scale row stripes on back, wider dark stripe below, iridescent blue stripe from gill cover to tail, black streak on tail lobes.
Favourite: Form aggregations, often mix with other fusiliers.
Hide-out: Clear water slopes and reefs to 60m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - E. Africa to Rapa I. in French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to New Caledonia.