Yellow Tail Fusilier

Caesio teres or Yellow Tail Fusilier has a wide tropical Indo-West Pacific distribution. It is found from the East African coast between Somalia and South Africa east into the Pacific as far as the Tuamotu Islands, north to southern Japan south to the Great Barrier Reef.

The Yellow Tail Fusilier feeds on zooplankton. It is diurnal, and lives in groups and forms schools with other species of fusiliers such as Caesio Xanthonota. The adults migrate to defined areas in The vicinity of the reef where they spawn close to the surface over and in the openings of deep channels during ebbing tides, the timing being governed by lunar cycles. It is an oviparous species which lays large numbers of small, pelagic eggs.

This species is found on coral reefs at depths between 5 and 60 m (16 and 197 ft).