Xanthichthys mento (Jordan & Gilbert 1882)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Tetraodontiformes
- family
- Balistidae
- genus
- Xanthichthys
- species
- Xanthichthys mento
description
Crosshatch Triggerfish or Redtail Triggerfish. To 30 cm (11.7 in) TL (Randall 1996). Tropical Pacific Ocean; scattered locations in the eastern Pacific including Ventura, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972), Isla Guadalupe, Rocas Alijos, tip of Baja California, and Colombia (Robertson and Allen 2015). Benthic; depth: surface to 158 m (518 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).