See text Caesio is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, fusiliers belonging to the family Lutjanidae.

In 1876 the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker designated C. caerulaurea as the type species of the genus Caesio.

[2] Currently, 9 species in this genus are recognized,[3][4] organised into three subgenera according to some authorities:[2] Caesio fusiliers have a reasonably high, fusiform and elongate body which is moderately laterally compressed.

[5] Caesio fusiliers are found in coastal areas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, including the Red Sea.

[5] One species, C. varilineata has been recorded in the eastern Mediterranean, probably having reached there through the Suez Canal as a Lessepsian migrant.