Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Xanthichthys caeruleolineatus
cochinito, Blue-striped triggerfish
Length up to 30 centimeters
Habitat: solitary fish, on drop-offs, rocky areas, to depths of 25 meters
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Tetraodontiformes
Family
Balistidae
Genus
Xanthichthys
Species
caeruleolineatus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Xanthichthys caeuleolineatus Randall, Matsuura & Zama, 1978 (misspelling), Xanthichthys careuleolineatus Randall, Matsuura & Zama, 1978 (misspelling), Xenobalistes punctatus Heemstra & Smith, 1983, fide Appeltans et al. (2010)
Origin: Vagrant
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- McCosker, J.E. Rosenblatt, R.H. (2010) The fishes of the Galápagos Archipelago: an update. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., Ser. 4, vol. 61, Suppl. II, no. 11: 167-195.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Xanthichthys caeruleolineatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14085. Accessed 21 June 2025.