Bigtail Fusilier, Pterocaesio marri Schultz 1953


Other Names: Bananafish, Big-tail Fusilier, Black-tipped Fusilier, Marr's Fusilier, Twinstripe Fusilier

A Bigtail Fusilier, Pterocaesio marri, at Bua, Fiji, May 2017. Source: Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org. License: CC By Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Summary:
A blue fusilier with dark caudal-fin tips, and two narrow yellow to brownish stripes along the side, the lowermost stripe mostly following the lateral line.

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Bray, D.J. 2019, Pterocaesio marri in Fishes of Australia, accessed 29 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1234

Bigtail Fusilier, Pterocaesio marri Schultz 1953

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Distribution

Northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, and reefs in the Coral Sea;  also Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific.
Forms schools on offshore reefs and around oceanic islands, feeding on zooplankton in the midwater.

Species Citation

Pterocaesio marri Schultz 1953, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 202(1): 545. Type locality: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. 

Author

Bray, D.J. 2019

Resources

Australian Faunal Directory

Bigtail Fusilier, Pterocaesio marri Schultz 1953

References


Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. 

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.

Allen, G.R., Steene, R.C. & Orchard, M. 2007. Fishes of Christmas Island. Christmas Island : Christmas Island Natural History Association 2 edn, 284 pp. 

Carpenter, K.E. 1987. Revision of the Indo-Pacific fish family Caesionidae (Lutjanoidea), with descriptions of five new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes 15: 1-56 figs 1-10 pls 1-7 

Carpenter, K.E. 1988. FAO Species Catalogue. Fusilier fishes of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of caesionid species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Vol. 8. Rome : FAO 75 pp. 

Carpenter, K.E. 2001. Caesionidae. pp. 2919-2941 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 5 2791-3379 pp.

Carpenter, K.E., Lawrence, A. & Myers, R. 2016. Pterocaesio marri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T20252738A65927550. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T20252738A65927550.en. Downloaded on 04 February 2019.

Hobbs, J-P.A., Newman, S.J., Mitsopoulos, G.E.A., Travers, M.J., Skepper, C.L., Gilligan, J.J., Allen, G.R., Choat, H.J. & Ayling, A.M. 2014. Checklist and new records of Christmas Island fishes: the influence of isolation, biogeography and habitat availability on species abundance and community composition. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 30: 184–202 Ref available online, open access

Kuiter, R.H. 1992. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific, Indonesia and Adjacent Waters. Jakarta : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama 314 pp. pls. 

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 507 pp. figs. 

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs. 

Schultz, L.P. 1953. Family Lutjanidae. Snappers. pp. 521-556, figs 85, 86, pls 44B, 47, 48A-C in Schultz, L.P., Herald, E.S., Lachner, E.A., Welander, A.D. & Woods, L.P. (eds). Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands. Vol. 1. Families Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 202(1): 1-685, figs 1-90, pls 1-74

Quick Facts


CAAB Code:37346068

Conservation:IUCN Least Concern

Depth:1-35 m

Habitat:Reef associated

Max Size:35 cm TL

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