Africentrum

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Africentrum
Temporal range: Upper Miocene [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Holocentriformes
Family: Holocentridae
Subfamily: Myripristinae
Genus: Africentrum
White and Moy-Thomas, 1941
Species:
A. melitense
Binomial name
Africentrum melitense
(Woodward, 1887)
Synonyms
  • Holocentrum melitenseWoodward, 1887

Africentrum is an extinct genus of prehistoric soldierfish that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch of what is now Malta. It contains a single species, A. melitense. [2] [1] [3] It has been either recovered as the sister genus to Myripristis or in a polytomy with all the other genera in the subfamily. [4] [5]

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References

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  4. Dornburg, Alex; Moore, Jon; Beaulieu, Jeremy M.; Eytan, Ron I.; Near, Thomas J. (2014-12-19). "The impact of shifts in marine biodiversity hotspots on patterns of range evolution: Evidence from the Holocentridae (squirrelfishes and soldierfishes)". Evolution. 69 (1): 146–161. doi:10.1111/evo.12562. ISSN   0014-3820.
  5. Andrews, James V.; Schein, Jason P.; Friedman, Matt (2023). "An earliest Paleocene squirrelfish (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentroidea) and its bearing on the timescale of holocentroid evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1). doi: 10.1080/14772019.2023.2168571 . ISSN   1477-2019.