Subfamily Luciocephalinae Bleeker 1852

Name in prevailing recent practice

Trichopodia Rafinesque 1815:85 [ref. 3584] (subfamily) Trichopodus [name never used as valid after 1899]

Luciocephaloïdei Bleeker 1852:99 [ref. 16831] (family) Luciocephalus [also Bleeker 1850–52:27 [ref. 13275]; family-group name used as valid by: Britz 2001 [ref. 25717], Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Rüber, Britz & Zardoya 2006 [ref. 32638]]

Trichogastrini Bleeker 1879b:2, 11 [ref. 457] (phalanx ≈ tribe) Trichogaster [stem changed to Trichogasterby Liem 1962:47 [ref. 20932], confirmed by Nelson 1976:291 [ref. 32838]; original stem Trichogastrconfirmed by Kottelat 2013b:448 [ref. 32989]]

Sphaerichthyinae Hoedeman 1948 in Hoedeman & de Jong 1947–58:X.59.21, p. 2 [ref. 19665] (subfamily) Sphaerichthys

Ctenopinae Hoedeman 1948 in Hoedeman & de Jong 1947–58:X.59.21, p. 2 [ref. 19665] (subfamily) Ctenops