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 Rafinesque, 1816Micropterus Lacépède, 1802The 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.