Marr's fusilier
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Marr's fusilier has a blue body and dark tail-fin tips.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Marr's fusilier
- Scientific name
- Pterocaesio marri
- Japanese name
- ニセタカサゴ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Caesionidae
- Genus
- Pterocaesio
It lives from Hachijojima, the Ogasawara Islands and Sagami Bay to Kyushu and the Ryukyus, and around Taiwan and the Indo-West Pacific.
You can tell it from the takasago because the yellow lengthwise stripe on its side runs along the lateral line.
How the Marr's fusilier lives
It eats zooplankton in midwater. It forms schools on offshore reefs and around oceanic islands.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Hachijo Island, Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, southern Taiwan, Indo-West Pacific, Samoa, Marquesas Islands, and elsewhere
Where the Marr's 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
- ニセタカサゴ
- 简体中文
- 马氏鳞鳍梅鲷
- 繁體中文
- 馬氏鱗鰭烏尾鮗
- Español
- Fusilero de Marr
- Français
- Fusilier de Marr
- Português (Brasil)
- Fuzileiro-de-pontas-pretas
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 — ニセタカサゴChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Bigtail Fusilier, Pterocaesio marriChecked: 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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