Doubleline Fusilier, Pterocaesio digramma (Bleeker 1865)
Other Names: Black-tipped Fusilier, Double Stripe Fusilier, Doublelined Fusilier, Double-lined Fusilier, Twin Yellow-striped Fusilier, Two-stripe Fusilier
Double-lined Fusiliers, Pterocaesio digramma, being attended by a Common Cleanerfish, Labroides dimidiatus, near Vlaming Head, North West Cape, Western Australia, December 2017. Source: Kristin Anderson / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A bluish-green fusilier becoming paler below, with a pair of narrow yellow stripes along the back and midside, and dark caudal-fin tips. The lower yellow stripe is mostly below the lateral line (except on the caudal peduncle).
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Bray, D.J. 2019, Pterocaesio digramma in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/543
Doubleline Fusilier, Pterocaesio digramma (Bleeker 1865)
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Distribution |
Shark Bay to the Dampier Archipelago, and Scott Reef, Western Australia, Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea, and the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, to at least Sydney, New South Wales; also Norfolk Island in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, west Pacific. Forms schools around coastal, lagoon and seaward reefs. |
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Fisheries |
Heavily fished in parts of its range. |
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Species Citation |
Caesio digramma Bleeker1865, Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde 2: 180. Type locality: Ambon, Indonesia. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2019 |
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Resources |
Doubleline Fusilier, Pterocaesio digramma (Bleeker 1865)
References
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Bleeker, P. 1865. Description de quelques espèces inédites de poissons de l'Archipel des Moluques. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde 2: 177-181
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