Dark-banded fusilier
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The dark-banded fusilier’s belly turns deep red when it rests.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Dark-banded fusilier
- Scientific name
- Pterocaesio tile
- Japanese name
- クマザサハナムロ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Caesionidae
- Genus
- Pterocaesio
It lives from the Ogasawara Islands and Shima in Mie to Yakushima and the Ryukyus, and around Taiwan and the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
It is common on coral reefs and is sometimes seen on rocky reefs along Japan's southern Pacific coast.
How the Dark-banded fusilier lives
During the day, it searches for and eats animal plankton in the water. It swims in large schools in midwater around reefs. At night, it rests in sheltered spots among the reefs.
農業部Basic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Pratas, Paracel and Spratly Islands, Gulf of Thailand, Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Dark-banded 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
- クマザサハナムロ
- 简体中文
- 黑带翼梅鲷
- 繁體中文
- 蒂爾鱗鰭烏尾鮗
- Español
- Fusilero de bandas oscuras
- Français
- Fusilier à ligne olive
- Deutsch
- Neon-Füsilier
- Português (Brasil)
- Fuzileiro-neon
- Italiano
- Fuciliere fascia blu
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Lolosi merah
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 — クマザサハナムロChecked: 2026-11-04
- 農業部 — 蒂爾鱗鰭烏尾鮗Checked: 2026-11-07
- 鴨川シーワールド — Vol.282～体色が変わるクマザサハナムロ～Checked: 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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