Caesio xanthonotus Bleeker, 1853

Ray, Dipanjan & Mohapatra, Anil, 2017, First report of Fusilier Fish family Caesionidae (Perciformes) from Northern part of East coast of India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (3), pp. 295-297 : 296

Caesio xanthonotus Bleeker, 1853

Materials examined: MARC /ZSI/1868, 2 Specimens, 195-215mm TL, 06.07.11, Digha Mohana

Characters: Body compressed fusiform and moderately deep. Mouth small, protrusible with small conical teeth in jaw, vomer and palatine. Eye large and its diameter longer than snout; longitudinal axis through tip of snout to middle of caudal fin passing through centre of eye. Post maxillary process single, posterior end of maxilla blunt. Lateral line scales 58-59; scales above lateral line 10; scales below lateral line 19; 5 scales rows on chick; predorsal scales 23. Scales of supratemporal interrupted by narrow scale less zone. Scale rows on spinous portion of dorsal fin oblique; caudal fin deeply forked.

Colour: Upper part of body bright yellow, middle part of body bluish and lower part of body whitish. Dorsal fin and caudal fin yellow; pectoral, ventral and anal fins whitish. Upper base and axil of pectoral fin blackish (Figure 2).

Distribution: In Indian coast this species distributed in Andhra Pradesh ( Barman et al., 2004); Andaman and Nicobar Island (Rao, 2004) and Lakshadweep ( Rao, 1991).

Figure 2. Caesio xanthonota Bleeker, 1853