Subfamily Macropodusinae Hoedeman 1948

Name in prevailing recent practice

Bettini Bleeker 1879b:2, 26 [ref. 457] (phalanx ≈ tribe) Betta [subfamily name sometimes seen as Bettainae]

Polyacanthinae Gill 1893b:135 [ref. 26255] (subfamily) Polyacanthus Cuvier [genus inferred from the stem, Article 11.7.1.1]

Parophiocephalidae Popta 1905:183 [ref. 3549] (family) Parophiocephalus Popta

Macropodinae Hoedeman 1948 in Hoedeman & de Jong 1947–58:X.59.21, p. 2 [ref. 19665] (subfamily) Macropodus [also as new in Liem 1962:47 [ref. 20932]; ICZN Opinion 2058 emended the spelling of the subfamily to Macropodusinae to remove homonymy with a family-group name in mammals; familygroup name also used as valid by: Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Rüber, Britz & Zardoya 2006 [ref. 32638]]