Double-lined fusilier

Amazing fact

When excited, double-lined fusiliers rapidly turn red along their sides.

名古屋港水族館

Double-lined fusilier in its habitat (illustration)

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When excited, double-lined fusiliers rapidly turn red along their sides.

Source名古屋港水族館 — 赤道の海【タカサゴ】

THE REAL WORLD

The real Double-lined fusilier

Scientific name: Pterocaesio digramma
Japanese name: タカサゴ
Group: Ocean animals

Order: Perciformes
Family: Caesionidae
Genus: Pterocaesio

Facts about the real animal.

It lives in Japanese seas from Honshu to the Ryukyu Islands, and around Taiwan, the western Pacific and the coasts of Australia.

鳥羽水族館 — タカサゴ

It looks very much like the nise-takasago fusilier.

鳥羽水族館 — タカサゴ

You can tell it apart because the yellow lengthwise stripe on its side runs below the lateral line.

鳥羽水族館 — タカサゴ

How the Double-lined fusilier lives

Young fish may be carried along by warm ocean currents. They filter plankton and other food through their gills to eat. They swim around rocky reefs and coral reefs in large schools.

名古屋港水族館新潟市水族館マリンピア日本海

Basic data

Range: Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, western Pacific, Australian coast, and elsewhere

鳥羽水族館

Where the Double-lined 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

Where it livesJapan Australia World oceans Ocean

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: タカサゴ
简体中文: 双带乌尾鮗
繁體中文: 雙帶鱗鰭烏尾鮗
Español: Fusilero de punta negra
Français: Fusilier à deux bandes jaunes
Português (Brasil): Fuzileiro-de-duas-linhas
Bahasa Indonesia: Ikan pisang-pisang

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 — タカサゴChecked: 2026-11-04
名古屋港水族館 — 赤道の海【タカサゴ】Checked: 2026-11-07
新潟市水族館マリンピア日本海 — タカサゴ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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