Paracaesio

Paracaesio
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Lutjanidae
Genus:	Paracaesio Bleeker, 1875
Type species
Caesio xanthurus Bleeker, 1869
Synonyms
Aetiasis Barnard, 1937 Vegetichthys S. Tanaka (I), 1917

Paracaesio is a genus of snappers native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean,^[1] with these currently recognized species:^[1]^[2]

Paracaesio brevidentata W. T. White & Last, 2012^[2]
Paracaesio caerulea (Katayama, 1934) (Japanese snapper)
Paracaesio gonzalesi Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979 (Vanuatu snapper)
Paracaesio kusakarii T. Abe, 1960 (saddle-back snapper)
Paracaesio paragrapsimodon W. D. Anderson & Kailola, 1992
Paracaesio sordida T. Abe & S. Shinohara, 1962 (dirty ordure snapper)
Paracaesio stonei U. Raj & Seeto, 1983 (cocoa snapper)
Paracaesio waltervadi W. D. Anderson & Collette, 1992
Paracaesio xanthura (Bleeker, 1869) (yellowtail blue snapper)

References

1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Paracaesio in FishBase. December 2013 version.
1 2 White, W.T. & Last, P.R. (2012): Paracaesio brevidentata n. sp., a new snapper (Lutjanidae: Apsilinae) from Indonesia. Zootaxa, 3418: 51–60.

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