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Fusilier is a name given to various kinds of soldiers; its meaning depends on the historical context. While fusilier is derived from the 17th-century French word fusil – meaning a type of flintlock musket – the term has been used in contrasting ways in different countries and at different times, including soldiers guarding artillery ...
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.
Caesionidae was named by the French zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1831. [1] The family takes its name from the genus Caesio which was named in 1801 by Bernard Germain de Lacépède, the name derived from caesius meaning "blue", as the type species of Caesio is the blue and gold fusilier (Caesio caerulaurea). [2]
The Fusilier Museum is located in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Headquarters at HM Tower of London. It also represents World War One soldiers of six London Regiment battalions ( 1st , 2nd , 3rd , 4th , 29th and 30th ) which had been attached to the Royal Fusiliers prior to 1908.
The lunar fusilier (Caesio lunaris), also known as the blue fusilier or moon fusilier, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a fusilier belonging to the family Caesionidae. It is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific area.
The goldband fusilier was first formally described as Caesio chryszona in 1830 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier with the type locality given as "Archipel des Indes", i.e. Indonesia. [3] In his 1987 review of the Caesionidae, Kent E. Carpenter placed this species within the subgenus Pisinnicaesio, [4] of which it is the type species. [5]
Caesio suevica Klunzinger, 1884 – Suez fusilier; Caesio teres Seale, 1906 – yellow and blueback fusilier; Caesio xanthonota Bleeker, 1853 – yellowback fusilier; Subgenus Odontonectes. Caesio cuning (Bloch, 1791) – redbelly yellowtail fusilier; Caesio lunaris G. Cuvier, 1830 – lunar fusilier
Caesio teres, the yellow and blueback fusilier, beautiful fusilier, blue and gold fusilier (not to be confused with Caesio caerulaurea) or yellow-tail fusilier, is a species of marine, pelagic ray-finned fish belonging to the family Caesionidae. It occurs in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.