Goldband fusilier

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Goldband fusilier
School of goldband fusiliers

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Caesionidae
Genus: Pterocaesio
Species:
P. chrysozona
Binomial name
Pterocaesio chrysozona
(G. Cuvier, 1830)
Synonyms[2]
  • Caesio chrysozona Cuvier, 1830
  • Pristipomoides aurolineatus Day, 1868

The gold-band fusilier (Pterocaesio chrysozona) also known as the yellow-band fusilier or black-tipped fusilier, is a species of marine

Indo-West Pacific
region.

Taxonomy

The goldband fusilier was first formally

zoologist Georges Cuvier with the type locality given as “Archipel des Indes”, i.e. Indonesia.[3] In his 1987 review of the Caesionidae, Kent E. Carpenter placed this species within the subgenus Pisinnicaesio,[4] of which it is the type species.[5] The specific name chrysozona means “gold band”, a reference to the yellow stripe on its flanks.[6]

Description

The goldband fusilier has a

total length of 21 cm (8.3 in).[2] The overall colour is pale blue to brownish fading to pinkish or white below. There is a wide yellow band along the flanks immediately below the lateral line.[7]

Distribution and habitat

The goldband fusilier is found in the tropical Indian and Western Pacific Oceans. Its range extends along the eastern coast of Africa from Mozambique north to the Red Sea and eastwards across the Indian Ocean, although it is absent from the northern Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf. In the Pacific Ocean is reaches east as far as the Solomon Islands, north to the Yaeyama Islands and south to Australia.[1] In Australia they are found around the coast from the Dampier Archipelago in Western Australia to Sydney.[7] They are at depths between 5 and 35 m (16 and 115 ft) among coral reefs, seagrass, along outer reef slopes and around pinnacles in deep lagoons.[8]

Biology

Goldband fusiliers are a non-

oviparous species which lays large numbers of small, pelagic eggs.[2]

Pterocaesio chrysozona
Another school

Fisheries

Goldband fusiliers play a minor role in commercial fisheries. In the Philippines, they are sometimes caught and marketed fresh using

baitfish for the pole and line tuna fisheries.[4]

Notes

  1. ^
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T20251507A65927387.en
    . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2021). "Pterocaesio chrysozona" in FishBase. June 2021 version.
  3. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Pterocaesio". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d Kent E. Carpenter (1988). FAO Species Catalogue Volume 8 Fusilier Fishes of the World (PDF). FAO Rome. pp. 52–53.
  5. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Lutjanidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  6. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (5 January 2021). "Order LUTJANIFORMES: Families HAEMULIDAE and LUTJANIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  7. ^ a b Dianne J. Bray. "Pterocaesio chrysozona". Fishes of Australia. Museums Victoria. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  8. ^ a b Nguyen, N.T. and V.Q. Nguyen (2006). Biodiversity and living resources of the coral reef fishes in Vietnam marine waters. Science and Technology Publishing House, Hanoi.

References

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