| Gilded Triggerfish | |
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| Male gilded triggerfish | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Balistidae |
| Genus: | Xanthichthys |
| Species: | X. auromarginatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Xanthichthys auromarginatus (E. T. Bennett, 1832)
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The gilded triggerfish or blue-throated triggerfish, Xanthichthys auromarginatus, is a spotted gray triggerfish. Males of the species have blue cheeks and yellow-bordered, white fins. It is widely, but locally, distributed at islands in the Indo-Pacific.