Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - Centropomidae
Parent taxon: Centropomidae according to P. C. Sereno et al. 2008
See also Agassiz 1835, Carnevale and Landini 2001 and Murray and Attia 2004
Sister taxon: Centropomus
Subtaxa: Lates gibbus Lates gracilis Lates macrurus Lates niloticus Lates notaeus Lates qatraniensis
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (5 collections), Egypt (2), Kenya (17), Niger (3), Sudan (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Kenya (1), Uganda (6)
• Pliocene to Holocene of Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Chad (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (1), Kenya (4), Tanzania (3), Uganda (10), Ukraine (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), Uganda (32)
• Miocene of Egypt (1), Italy (2), Kenya (2), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (1), Tunisia (5)
• Eocene of Libya (2)
Total: 111 collections including 115 occurrences
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