Ebenaqua
Extinct genus of fishes
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Ebenaqua (from Latin ebenus ("black") + aqua ("water"), referencing the type locality) is an extinct genus of freshwater bobasatraniiform ray-finned fish that lived during the Lopingian (late Permian) epoch of Australia.[3][4] It contains a single species, E. ritchiei, known from the Changhsingian-aged Rangal Coal Measures of what is now Blackwater, Queensland, Australia.[3][4][1][2]
| Ebenaqua Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Bobasatraniiformes |
| Family: | †Bobasatraniidae |
| Genus: | †Ebenaqua Campbell & Phuoc, 1983 |
| Species: | †E. ritchei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ebenaqua ritchei Campbell & Phuoc, 1983 | |
