Caesio
Caesio is a genus of fish in the family Caesionidae, the fusiliers. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean, although one species, C. varilineata, has invaded the eastern Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal by Lessepsian migration.[1]
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| Genus: | Caesio Lacépède, 1801 |
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| Caesio caerulaureus Lacépède, 1801 | |
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Species
Currently, 9 species in this genus are recognized:[2][3]
- Caesio caerulaurea Lacépède, 1801 – blue and gold fusilier
- Caesio cuning (Bloch, 1791) – redbelly yellowtail fusilier
- Caesio lunaris G. Cuvier, 1830 – lunar fusilier
- Caesio striata Rüppell, 1830 – striated fusilier
- Caesio suevica Klunzinger, 1884 – Suez fusilier
- Caesio teres Seale, 1906 – yellow and blueback fusilier
- Caesio varilineata K. E. Carpenter, 1987 – variable-lined fusilier
- Caesio xanthalytos Holleman, Connell & K. E. Carpenter, 2013[3]
- Caesio xanthonota Bleeker, 1853 – yellowback fusilier
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References
- Bos A.R. & J. Ogwang (2018). "Caesio varilineata Carpenter, 1987 (Osteichthyes: Caesionidae) a new alien fish in the southeastern Mediterranean Sea" (PDF). BioInvasions Records. 7 (4): 441–445. doi:10.3391/bir.2018.7.4.15.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Caesio in FishBase. June 2013 version.
- Holleman, W., Connell, A.D. & Carpenter, K.E. (2013): Caesio xanthalytos, a new species of fusilier (Perciformes: Caesionidae) from the Western Indian Ocean, with records of range extensions for several species of Caesionidae. Zootaxa, 3702 (3): 262–272.
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