Microcanthus
Genus of ray-finned fishes
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Microcanthus is a genus of stripeys with an antitropical distribution in the Pacific Ocean.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Centrarchiformes |
| Suborder: | Terapontoidei |
| Family: | Microcanthidae |
| Genus: | Microcanthus Swainson, 1839 |
| Type species | |
| Chaetodon strigatus Cuvier, 1831 | |
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Taxonomy
Stripeys were thought to constitute a single species, M. strigatus, but a paper published in 2020[2] recognizes two valid species:
- Microcanthus strigatus (Cuvier, 1831) (northern stripey)
- Microcanthus joyceae Whitley, 1931 (East Australian stripey)
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