Three-stripe fusilier
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Pterocaesio trilineata has a silvery white underside.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Three-stripe fusilier
- Scientific name
- Pterocaesio trilineata
- Japanese name
- イッセンタカサゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Caesionidae
- Genus
- Pterocaesio
It lives on rocky and coral reefs from Sagami Bay and the Ryukyus to the Maldives, the Philippines and Fiji.
How the Three-stripe fusilier lives
It eats zooplankton drifting in the water. It lives in schools on coral reefs.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Sagami Bay, Ryukyu Islands, Jeju, Maldives, Philippines, eastern Indonesia to Fiji, Kiribati, and elsewhere
Where the Three-stripe fusilier has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- イッセンタカサゴ
- 简体中文
- 三带鳞鳍梅鲷
- 繁體中文
- 三帶鱗鰭梅鯛
- Español
- Fusilero de tres líneas
- Français
- Fusilier à trois bandes
- Português (Brasil)
- Fuzileiro-de-três-linhas
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — イッセンタカサゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Threestripe Fusilier, Pterocaesio trilineataChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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