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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Perciformes (order)  »  Microcanthidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 361028 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Microcanthus strigatus   (Cuvier, 1831)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Family: 37 361 Microcanthidae (Mados & Stripeys) - show full list Standard Name: [a stripey] Organism Type: a stripey Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Coastal (0-40m) Parent Codes: 37 361904     Microcanthus spp.

Taxon Notes:

Added after reassessment of genus by Tea & Gill (2020) and recognition of M. joyceae (coded as 37 361005) in Australia. Microcanthus strigatus is known from Western Australia, East Asia and Hawaii. In WA it has been recorded from Cape Leeuwin northwards to the Exmouth Gulf (Tea & Gill 2020).

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Record source and Scientific Name verified against:

TEA, YI-KAI, GILL, ANTHONY C., 2020. Systematic reappraisal of the anti-equatorial fish genus Microcanthus Swainson (Teleostei: Microcanthidae), with redescription and resurrection of Microcanthus joyceae Whitley, Zootaxa, Vol. 4802: 41-60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.3