{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Microcanthus | image = Microcanthus_strigatus.jpg | authority = Swainson, 1839 | display_parents = 3 | type_species = ''Chaetodon strigatus'' | type_species_authority = Cuvier, 1831 | synonyms = *''Helotosoma'' <small>Kaup, 1863</small> *''Neochaetodon'' <small>Castelnau, 1873</small> *''Therapaina'' <small>Kaup, 1860</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite WoRMS |title=''Microcanthus'' |id=269855 |access-date=11 November 2023}}</ref> }}
'''''Microcanthus''''' is a genus 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<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Tea, Y.K. |author2=A.C. Gill |date=22 June 2020 |title=Systematic reappraisal of the anti-equatorial fish genus Microcanthus Swainson (Teleostei: Microcanthidae), with redescription and resurrection of ''Microcanthus joyceae'' Whitley |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.3 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4802 |issue=1 |pages=41–60|pmid=33056631 |s2cid=222844159 }}</ref> recognizes two valid species: * ''Microcanthus strigatus'' <small>(Cuvier, 1831)</small> (northern stripey) * ''Microcanthus joyceae'' <small>Whitley, 1931</small> (East Australian stripey)
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Category:Microcanthinae Category:Marine fish genera Category:Taxa described in 1839 Category:Taxa named by William Swainson
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