Yellow and blueback fusilier

Caesio teres

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth10–25 m
Water temperature25–30 °C
Best monthsApril
How commonOccasional

Photo credit: (c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

About this species

Caesio teres, the yellow and blueback fusilier, beautiful fusilier, blue and gold fusilier or yellow-tail fusilier, is a species of marine, pelagic ray-finned fish belonging to the family Caesionidae. It occurs in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Caesio teres”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 83 records
February: 265 records
March: 353 records
April: 643 records
May: 231 records
June: 265 records
July: 129 records
August: 146 records
September: 106 records
October: 248 records
November: 90 records
December: 71 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 10–25 m · Deepest record: 79.7 m

0–10 m: 157 records
10–20 m: 898 records
20–30 m: 632 records
30–40 m: 12 records
40–50 m: 1 records
50–60 m: 1 records
60–70 m: 1 records
70–80 m: 12 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 25–30 °C

24–26 °C: 18 records
26–28 °C: 76 records
28–30 °C: 578 records

Photos

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(c) Bernard DUPONT, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
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(c) Patrick Connolly, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) desertnaturalist, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Yellow and blueback fusilier, beautiful fusilier, Blue and Gold Fusilier, Blue-and-yellow Fusilier, Blue Fusilier, Blue & Gold Fusilier, yellow and blueback fusilier, yellow-and-blueback fusilier, Yellow-tail Fusilier

Names in 7 more languages

German: Gelbschwanz-Füsilier
Spanish: Fusilero amarillo azulado, Fusilero de cola dorada
Filipino: Dalagang bukid
French: Caesio à Queue Jaune, Fusilier à dos jaune et bleu
Japanese: Umeiromodoki, ウメイロモドキ
Thai: ปลากล้วยหลังเหลือง
Simplified Chinese: 烏尾冬仔，黃烏尾鮗, 美麗梅鯛, 藍黃梅鯛, 黃藍背梅鯛, 黃藍背烏尾鮗

Other scientific names: Caesio pulcherrima, Caesio pulcherrimus, Caesio terus

Similar species

Red-bellied Fusilier
Caesio cuning
Blue and gold fusilier
Caesio caerulaurea
Lunar fusilier
Caesio lunaris
Mottled fusilier
Dipterygonotus balteatus

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
2,484 open-data records from 1906 to 2023.
Species data updated October 26, 2026.

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