Africentrum
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. It has been either recovered as the sister genus to Myripristis or in a polytomy with all the other genera in the subfamily.
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| Scientific classification | |
| 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) | |
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