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Genus Microcanthus Swainson, 1839

Introduction

Genus recently reviewed by Tea et al. (2019) and Tea & Gill (2020) who showed the presence of divergent clades within Microcanthus. They removed M. joyceae from synonymy with M. strigatus for the SW Pacific form occurring on the east coast of Australia, and retained M. strigatus for the Western Australian and NW Pacific species.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

South-west Pacific, Japan and Hawaii.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
13-Apr-2023 MICROCANTHIDAE 08-Dec-2022 MODIFIED Dr Matthew Lockett (ABRS)
25-Feb-2012 25-Feb-2012 MOVED
23-Feb-2015 13-Feb-2012 MOVED
23-Nov-2012 11-Jan-2012 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2010 MODIFIED