Blue and gold fusilier
Amazing fact
The blue and gold fusilier has dark streaks on its tail that give it a scissor-like appearance.
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The blue and gold fusilier has dark streaks on its tail that give it a scissor-like appearance.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blue and gold fusilier
- Scientific name
- Caesio caerulaurea
- Japanese name
- ササムロ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Caesionidae
- Genus
- Caesio
Where the name “Blue and gold fusilier” comes from
Its scientific name includes Latin words meaning sky-coloured and golden.
Museums VictoriaIt lives along the coast from Sagami Bay to Kagoshima Prefecture, around the Ogasawara and Ryukyu Islands, and in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Blue and gold fusilier lives
It lives on reefs where coral grows well. It eats zooplankton in midwater above the reef. It swims along the coast in large schools.
Museums Victoria新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Indo-Pacific, Samoa Islands, Micronesia, and elsewhere
Where the Blue and gold 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
- ササムロ
- 简体中文
- 乌尾鮗
- 繁體中文
- 烏尾鮗
- Español
- Fusilero Azur
- Français
- Caesio Azuror
- Deutsch
- Gelbstreifen-Füsilier
- Português (Brasil)
- Fuzileiro-de-listra-dourada
- Italiano
- Fuciliere striscia d'oro
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Lolosi biru
- Русский
- Цезий
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 — ササムロChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Goldband Fusilier, Caesio caerulaureaChecked: 2026-11-07
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ササムロ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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