Caesio suevica was first formally described in 1884 by the German zoologist Carl Benjamin Klunzinger with the type locality given as El Qoseir on the Red Sea coast of Egypt.

[2] In his 1987 review of the genus Caesio, Kent E. Carpenter placed this species in the subgenus Flavicaesio.

[4] Caesio suevica has a moderately slender, fusiform and laterally compressed body.

[5] Caesio suevica is endemic to the Red Sea records from elsewhere in the Indian Ocean are probably misidentifications.

[1] The Suez fusilier inhabits coastal areas, especially on coral reefs, at a depth from 2 to 25 m.[5] Caesio suevica form large midwater aggregations.