beautiful fusilier
Caesio teres
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Caesionidae
- Genus
- Caesio
Where to Find
Found in 36 diving areas across 24 countries and 5 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 4 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 22 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 36 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 357 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 6 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 138 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 3 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 53 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 56 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 16 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 1 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 1 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 2 records
- Siargao, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 23 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 4 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 28 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 36 records