Microcanthus

Microcanthus is a genus of stripeys with an antitropical distribution in the Pacific Ocean.

Microcanthus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Centrarchiformes
Suborder:	Terapontoidei
Family:	Kyphosidae
Subfamily:	Microcanthinae
Genus:	Microcanthus Swainson, 1839
Type species
Chaetodon strigatus Cuvier, 1831
Synonyms[1]
Helotosoma Kaup, 1863 Neochaetodon Castelnau, 1873 Therapaina Kaup, 1860

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)