Lepominae Explained

Lepominae is a subfamily of freshwater ray-finned fish, one of three subfamilies in the family Centrarchidae, the sunfishes.

Genera

The following three genera are classified as being in the subfamily Lepominae:^[1]

Acantharchus Gill, 1864 (Mud sunfish)
Lepomis Rafinesque, 1816
Micropterus Lacépède, 1802 (Black basses)

Notes and References

Book: Fishes of the World . 5th . J. S. Nelson . T. C. Grande . M. V. H. Wilson . 2016 . 444–446 . Wiley . 978-1-118-34233-6 . 2020-05-19 . 2019-04-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ . dead .