🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Blue and gold fusilier live?

Caesio caerulaurea has 3,692 records in 55 countries and territories, from 1769 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataPerciformesCaesionidaeCaesio

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 1,085
Marshall Islands 337
Indonesia 321
New Caledonia 246
Solomon Islands 212
Fiji 199
Philippines 171
American Samoa 140
Mayotte 114
Japan 113
Seychelles 69
Thailand 62
Mozambique 55
Malaysia 52
Papua New Guinea 51
Vanuatu 45
Tonga 39
Taiwan 39
Egypt 32
Palau 29
Kiribati 19
Madagascar 19
Samoa 18
China 17
Micronesia 17
South Africa 17
Hong Kong 15
Maldives 15
Tuvalu 12
Wallis & Futuna 12
Guam 10
Singapore 10
RΓ©union 8
Timor-Leste 8
Tanzania 8
United States Minor Outlying Islands 7
Northern Mariana Islands 6
Mauritius 6
French Southern Territories 6
ZZ 6

Showing the top 40 of 55 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Caesionidae.

Tricoloured Fusilier, Dark-banded fusilier
7,612 records
Redbelly yellowtail fusilier
6,991 records
Banana fusilier
5,634 records
Yellowback fusilier
603 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.