Lepominae

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

Genera

The following two genera are classified as being in the subfamily Lepominae:

Lepomis Constantine [Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque], 1816
Micropterus Bernard [Germain de Lacépède|Lacépède], 1802

The oldest fossils of this group are Micropterus and Lepomis specimens from the Middle Miocene. However, as centrarchine fossils are known dating back to the Early Oligocene, they likely diverged from that group much earlier.