Editing Triggerfish (section)

==Genera and species==
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!Genus
!Living species
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|[[File:Abalistes stellatus2.jpg|175px]] ||''[[Abalistes]]'' {{small|[[David Starr Jordan|D. S. Jordan]] & [[Alvin Seale|Seale]], 1906}} ||
* ''[[Abalistes filamentosus]]'' <small>[[Keiichi Matsuura|Matsuura]] & [[Tetsuo Yoshino|Yoshino]], 2004</small> 
* ''[[Abalistes stellatus]]'' <small>Anonymous, referred to [[Bernard Germain de Lacépède|Lacépède]], 1798</small>
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|[[File:Balistapus undulatus.jpg|175px]] ||''[[Balistapus]]'' {{small|[[Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau|Tilesius]], 1820}} ||
*''[[Balistapus undulatus]]'' <small>[[Mungo Park (explorer)|M. Park]], 1797 </small>
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|[[File:Balistes vetula (queen triggerfish) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 4 (16151145845).jpg|175x175px]]||''[[Balistes]]'' {{small|[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758}} ||
* ''[[Balistes capriscus]]'' <small>[[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|J. F. Gmelin]], 1789</small>
* ''[[Balistes polylepis]]'' <small>[[Franz Steindachner|Steindachner]], 1876</small> 
* ''[[Balistes punctatus]]'' <small>J. F. Gmelin, 1789</small> 
* ''[[Balistes vetula]]'' <small>Linnaeus, [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]</small> 
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|[[File:Balistoides conspicillum 01.jpg|175px]] ||''[[Balistoides]]'' {{small|[[Alec Fraser-Brunner|Fraser-Brunner]], 1935}} ||
* ''[[Balistoides conspicillum]]'' <small>(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)</small> 
* ''[[Balistoides viridescens]]'' <small>(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)</small> 
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|[[File:Canthidermis sufflamen (ocean triggerfish) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 1 (15965263309).jpg|175px]] ||''[[Canthidermis]]'' {{small|[[William Swainson|Swainson]], 1839}} ||
* ''[[Canthidermis macrolepis]]'' <small>[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1888</small>
* ''[[Canthidermis maculata]]'' <small>Bloch, 1786</small>
* ''[[Canthidermis rotundatus]]'' <small>([[Pierre-Martin Marion de Procé|Marion de Procé]], 1822)</small>
* ''[[Canthidermis sufflamen]]'' <small>[[Samuel Latham Mitchill|Mitchill]], 1815</small>
* ''[[Canthidermis willughbeii]]'' <small>([[George Tradescant Lay|Lay]] & [[Edward Turner Bennett|Bennett]], 1839)</small>
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|[[File:Pinktail Triggerfish, dark phase - Melichthys vidua.jpg|175px]] ||''[[Melichthys]]'' {{small|Swainson, 1839}} ||
* ''[[Melichthys indicus]]'' <small>[[John Ernest Randall|J. E. Randall]] & [[Wolfgang Klausewitz|Klausewitz]], 1973</small> 
* ''[[Melichthys niger]]'' <small>Bloch, 1786</small> 
* ''[[Melichthys vidua]]'' <small>[[John Richardson (naturalist)|J. Richardson]], 1845</small> 
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|[[File:Blue Tooth Triggerfish, Bunaken Island.jpg|175px]] ||''[[Odonus]]'' {{small|Gistel, 1848}} ||
*''[[Odonus niger]]'' <small>[[Eduard Rüppell|Rüppell]], 1836 </small>
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|[[File:Yellow-margin triggerfish at Palmyra Atoll NWR (5123999534).jpg|175px]]||''[[Pseudobalistes]]'' {{small|[[Pieter Bleeker|Bleeker]], 1865}} ||
* ''[[Pseudobalistes flavomarginatus]]'' <small>Rüppell, 1829</small>
* ''[[Pseudobalistes fuscus]]'' <small>(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)</small>
* ''[[Pseudobalistes naufragium]]'' <small>D. S. Jordan & [[Edwin Chapin Starks|Starks]], 1895</small>
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|[[File:Picasso.triggerfish.arp.jpg|175px]] ||''[[Rhinecanthus]]'' {{small|Swainson, 1839}} ||
* ''[[Rhinecanthus abyssus]]'' <small>[[Keiichi Matsuura|Matsuura]] & [[Yoshihisa Shiobara|Shiobara]], 1989</small> 
* ''[[Rhinecanthus aculeatus]]'' <small>Linnaeus, [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]</small> 
* ''[[Rhinecanthus assasi]]'' <small>[[Peter Forsskål|Forsskål]], 1775</small> 
* ''[[Rhinecanthus cinereus]]'' <small>[[Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre|Bonnaterre]], 1788</small> 
* ''[[Rhinecanthus lunula]]'' <small>J. E. Randall & [[Roger C. Steene|Steene]], 1983</small> 
* ''[[reef triggerfish|Rhinecanthus rectangulus]]'' <small>Bloch & Schneider, 1801</small> 
* ''[[Rhinecanthus verrucosus]]'' <small>Linnaeus, [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]</small> 

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|[[File:Scythe triggerfish (Sufflamen bursa) (47058283462).jpg|175px]]||''[[Sufflamen]]'' {{small|D. S. Jordan, 1916}} ||
* ''[[Sufflamen albicaudatum]]'' <small>Rüppell, 1829</small> 
* ''[[Sufflamen bursa]]'' <small>Bloch & Schneider, 1801</small> 
* ''[[Sufflamen chrysopterum]]'' <small>Bloch & Schneider, 1801</small>
* ''[[Sufflamen fraenatum]]'' <small>[[Pierre André Latreille|Latreille]], 1804</small>
* ''[[Sufflamen verres]]'' <small>[[Charles Henry Gilbert|C. H. Gilbert]] & Starks, 1904</small>
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|[[File:Gilded Triggerfish, male - Xanthichthys auromarginatus.jpg|175px]] ||''[[Xanthichthys]]'' {{small|Kaup, 1856}} ||
* ''[[Xanthichthys auromarginatus]]'' <small>Bennett, 1832</small> 
* ''[[Xanthichthys caeruleolineatus]]'' <small>J. E. Randall, Matsuura & [[Akira Zama|Zama]], 1978</small> 
* ''[[Xanthichthys greenei]]'' <small>[[Richard Lawrence Pyle|Pyle]] & [[John L. Earle|Earle]], 2013</small>
* ''[[Xanthichthys lima]]'' <small>(Bennett, 1832)</small>
* ''[[Xanthichthys lineopunctatus]]'' <small>[[Henri Louis Gabriel Marc Hollard|Hollard]], 1854</small>
* ''[[Xanthichthys mento]]'' <small>D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882</small> 
* ''[[Xanthichthys ringens]]'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> 
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| ||''[[Xenobalistes]]'' {{small|Matsuura, 1981}} ||
* ''[[Xenobalistes tumidipectoris]]'' <small>Matsuura, 1981</small> 
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[[File:Oligobalistes robustus.jpg|thumb|Life restoration of the extinct ''[[Oligobalistes]]'']]
The following fossil genera are also known:

* †''[[Balistomorphus]]'' <small>[[Theodore Gill|Gill]], 1888</small> - [[Early Oligocene]] of Switzerland<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Bannikov |first1=A. F. |last2=Tyler |first2=J. C. |date=2008-10-01 |title=A new genus and species of triggerfish from the Middle Eocene of the Northern Caucasus, the earliest member of the Balistidae (Tetraodontiformes) |url=https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030108060075 |journal=Paleontological Journal |language=en |volume=42 |issue=6 |pages=615–620 |bibcode=2008PalJ...42..615B |doi=10.1134/S0031030108060075 |issn=1555-6174|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* †''[[Gornylistes]]'' <small>Bannikov & Tyler, 2008</small> - Middle [[Eocene]] ([[Bartonian]]) of the [[North Caucasus]], Russia<ref name=":1" />
* †''[[Oligobalistes]]'' <small>Daniltshenko, 1960</small> - Early Oligocene of the North Caucasus, Russia<ref>{{Cite journal |last=SANTINI |first=FRANCESCO |last2=TYLER |first2=JAMES C. |date=2003-12-01 |title=A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent |url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/139/4/565/2624208 |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=139 |issue=4 |pages=565–617 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00088.x |issn=0024-4082|url-access=subscription }}</ref>