Caesio cuning

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Caesio cuning
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Caesionidae
Genus: Caesio
Species:
C. cuning
Binomial name
Caesio cuning
(Bloch, 1791)
Synonyms [2]
  • Sparus cuningBloch, 1791
  • Cichla cuning(Bloch, 1791)
  • Caesio erythrogaster Cuvier, 1830
  • Caesio erythrochilurus Fowler, 1904

Caesio cuning, the redbelly yellowtail fusilier, yellowtail fusilier, red-bellied fusilier or robust fusilier, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a fusilier belonging to the family Caesionidae. It is native to the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.

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Taxonomy

Caesio cuning was first formally described in 1791 as Sparus cuning by the German zoologist Marcus Elieser Bloch with the type locality given as Indonesia. [3] This species has been placed in the subgenus Odontonectes. [4] The specific name cuning is derived from the local Indonesian name ikan Tembra Cuning, ikan means "fish". [5]

Description

Caesio cuning has a deep and laterally compressed body. The jaws, vomer, and palatines have small conical teeth. [6] The dorsal and anal fins have scales; the dorsal fin has 10 spines and 14 to 16, typically 15, soft rays while the anal fin contains 3 spines and 10 to 12, usually 11, soft rays. The pectoral fins have 17 to 20 fin rays, normally 18 or 19. [4] This species attains a maximum total length of 60 cm (24 in). [2] The rear of the back, the caudal fin and the dorsal surface of the caudal peduncle are yellow. The rest of the upper body is greyish blue. The lower flanks and abdomen are white or pinkish. The pectoral, pelvic, and anal fins are white to pink. The pectoral fin has black on its axil and on the upper part of its base. The dorsal fin is greyish-blue at the front and yellow at the rear. [4]

Distribution and habitat

Caesio cuning has an Indo-West Pacific range. It ranges from Sri Lanka and southern India east to Fiji, north to southern Japan and south to northern Australia. It occurs at depths between 1 and 60 m (3 ft 3 in and 196 ft 10 in). [1] It often occurs in silty areas where visibility is poor, otherwise it is found in coastal waters, typically above rocky and coral reefs. [2]

Biology

Caesio cuning gathers in midwater schools [2] where they feed on zooplankton such as salps, doliolids, pteropods, heteropods, chaetognaths, among other zooplankton. [1] It is an oviparous species which lays large numbers of small, pelagic eggs. [2]

Fisheries

Caesio cuning is a moderately important target for coastal fisheries. It is common in fish markets in Indonesia and the Philippines. They are caught using drive-in nets, gill nets, traps, trawls and handlines. The fish caught are normally sold as fresh fish but some of the catch is preserved as salted fish. The juveniles are caught to be used as bait by tuna fisheries. [4] There have been population declines in some areas because of overfishing but in other areas populations are stable. [1]

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References

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  3. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Caesio". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Kent E. Carpenter (1988). FAO Species Catalogue Volume 8 Fusilier Fishes of the World (PDF). FAO Rome. pp. 42–44.
  5. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (5 January 2021). "Order LUTJANIFORMES: Families HAEMULIDAE and LUTJANIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  6. ↑ K.E. Carpenter (2001). "Caesionidae". In Carpenter, K.E. & Volker H. Neim (eds.). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 5: Bony fishes part 3 (Menidae to Pomacentridae) (PDF). FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. FAO Rome. p. 2927.
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