Mottled Fusilier, Dipterygonotus balteatus (Valenciennes 1830)
A Mottled Fusilier, Dipterygonotus balteatus, in Okinawa, Japan, August 2008. Source: Let's do it / WEB fish picture book (https://zukan.com/fish/leaf20474). License: CC BY Attribution
Summary:
A small slender silvery fusilier with a brownish to bronze back, a silvery stripe along the side from the upper gill cover to the caudal-fin base, and 3-4 pale wavy narrow stripes on the back.
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Bray, D.J. 2019, Dipterygonotus balteatus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 21 Apr 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/541
Mottled Fusilier, Dipterygonotus balteatus (Valenciennes 1830)
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Distribution |
North of Port Hedland, Western Australia, around the tropical north to off Hat Head, New South Wale, including off reefs in the Coral Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west Pacific. Adults are mostly pelagic over the continental shelf relatively far from reefs. They may form schools with sardines, anchovies and other nearshore pelagic species. Juveniles regularly occur around reefs. |
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Fisheries |
Heavily fished and taken as bycatch along with sardines and anchovies in parts of its range. |
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Species Citation |
Smaris balteatus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons Vol. 6: 434. Type locality: Sri Lanka (as Ceylon). |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2019 |
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Mottled Fusilier, Dipterygonotus balteatus (Valenciennes 1830)
References
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Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls.
Valenciennes, A. in Cuvier, G.L. & Valenciennes, A. 1830. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : Levrault Vol. 6 559 pp. pls 141-169.
Yoshino, T., Kon, T. & Senou, H. 1999. First records of two caesionid Fishes, Dipterygonotus balteatus and Gymnocaesio gymnoptera, from Japan (Pisces: Perciformes: Caesionidae: Gymnocaesioninae). Biogeography 1: 57-61.
