Lutjaninae

Lutjaninae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes, one of four subfamilies classified within the family Lutjanidae, the snappers. It contains the true snappers and the fusiliers, the latter of which were previously placed in the family Caesionidae.

== Taxonomy == In the past, the fusiliers (genera Caesio, Dipterygonotus, Gymnocaesio, and Pterocaesio), which are adapted for feeding on plankton, rather than on larger prey, and are found at reefs in the Indo-Pacific and in the Red Sea, were placed in their own family, Caesionidae. Caesionidae was named by the French zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1831, named after 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). However, more recently, taxonomic studies have found this placement to be paraphyletic, with fusiliers being deeply nested within the family Lutjanidae, the snappers, being placed within the subfamily Lutjaninae.