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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