Xanthichthys

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: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || X. auromarginatus E. T. Bennett, 1832 |gilded triggerfish|| Indo-Pacific. |- | || X. caeruleolineatus J. E. Randall, Matsuura & Zama, 1978 |outrigger triggerfish|| Indo-West Pacific. |- |120px || X. greenei Pyle & Earle, 2013 |Kiri triggerfish||Pacific Ocean |- | || X. lineopunctatus Hollard, 1854 |striped triggerfish||South Africa eastward through northern Australia to New Guinea, north to southern Japan. |- |120px || X. mento D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882 |redtail triggerfish||Pacific. |- |120px || X. ringens Linnaeus, 1758 |sargassum triggerfish||e Western Atlantic, ranging from North Carolina (USA) to Brazil. |- |}