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Three-stripe Fusilier

Pterocaesio trilineata

Classification

Pterocaesio is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, fusiliers belonging to the family Lutjanidae. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Pterocaesio was described as a genus in 1876 by the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker with Franz Steindachner's Caesio multiradiatus as the type species.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 31United States of America · 5