Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Caesionidae > Pterocaesio > Pterocaesio chrysozona

Pterocaesio chrysozona (Yellow-band fusilier; Yellowband fusilier; Golden-band fusilier; Goldband fusilier; Gold-band fusilier; Gold band fusilier; Blacktipped fusilier; Fusilier)

Synonyms: Caesio chrysozoma; Caesio chrysozona; Caesio chrysozonus; Pristipomoides aurolineatus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The goldband fusilier (Pterocaesio chrysozona) is a fusilier of the genus Pterocaesio. It is also known as the blacktipped fusilier. This is a tropical reef forage fish found between latitudes 30°N and 27°S and longitudes 40°E to 157°E. It is widespread around reefs in the Red Sea, the west Pacific Ocean, and along east Africa, west India, and east Australia. They have a yellow stripe on each side, parallel to and one or two scales below the lateral line. Their back (dorsal area) is light blue to brown and their belly (ventral area) is white to pink.
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Infraspecies

Caesio chrysozonus chrysozonus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia

Predators

Plectropomus leopardus (bluedotted coraltrout)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lecithochirium caesionis[2]
Lepidapedoides ovalis[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0