''Microcanthus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of stripeys with an antitropical distribution in the Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
Stripeys were thought to constitute a single species, ''M. strigatus'', but a paper published in 2020
recognizes two valid species:
* ''
Microcanthus strigatus''
(Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (; ), was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuv ...
, 1831) (northern stripey)
* ''
Microcanthus joyceae''
Whitley, 1931 (East Australian stripey)
References
Microcanthinae
Marine fish genera
Taxa described in 1839
Taxa named by William Swainson
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