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 28 Feb 2025, 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. |
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Species Citation |
Pterocaesio marri Schultz 1953, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 202(1): 545. Type locality: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2019 |
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Bigtail Fusilier, Pterocaesio marri Schultz 1953
References
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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.
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Kuiter, R.H. 1992. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific, Indonesia and Adjacent Waters. Jakarta : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama 314 pp. pls.
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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
