Xanthichthys

Xanthichthys
Xanthichthys auromarginatus
Xanthichthys ringens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Balistidae
Genus:	Xanthichthys Kaup, 1856
Type species
Balistes curassavicus J. F. Gmelin, 1789

Xanthichthys is a genus of triggerfishes native to reef environments in the western Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean.

Species

Six recognized species are placed in this genus: ^{[1] [2]}

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	X. auromarginatus E. T. Bennett, 1832	gilded triggerfish	Indo-Pacific.
	X. caeruleolineatus J. E. Randall, Matsuura & Zama, 1978	outrigger triggerfish	Indo-West Pacific.
	X. greenei Pyle & Earle, 2013 [3]	Kiri triggerfish	Pacific Ocean
	X. lineopunctatus Hollard, 1854	striped triggerfish	South Africa eastward through northern Australia to New Guinea, north to southern Japan.
	X. mento D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882	redtail triggerfish	Pacific.
	X. ringens Linnaeus, 1758	sargassum triggerfish	e Western Atlantic, ranging from North Carolina (USA) to Brazil.

References

1. Matsuura, Keiichi (2015). "Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: A review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014". Ichthyological Research. 62: 72–113. doi: 10.1007/s10228-014-0444-5 . S2CID   15223867.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Xanthichthys". FishBase . October 2012 version.
3. Pyle, Richard; Earle, John (2013). "Xanthichthys greenei, a new species of triggerfish (Balistidae) from the Line Islands". Biodiversity Data Journal. 1 (1): e994. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e994 . PMC   3964694 . PMID   24723781.