''Chalixodytes'' is a genus of

sandburrower The sandburrowers or simply burrowers are a family, Creediidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. They are native to coastal waters the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are very small fishes; with the exception of the larger Donaldson's sandbur ...

s native to the Indian and the Pacific oceans.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * '' Chalixodytes chameleontoculis''

J. L. B. Smith James Leonard Brierley Smith (26 September 1897 – 8 January 1968) was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought to be long ex ...

, 1957 (Sand dart) * '' Chalixodytes tauensis'' L. P. Schultz, 1943 (Saddled sandburrower) ''C. chameleontoculis'' is regarded by many authorities as a

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of ''C. tauensis'', which would mean that this genus is monotypic.

References

Creediidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Leonard Peter Schultz {{Perciformes-stub