Macropodus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1801:416 Masc. Macropodus viridiauratus Lacepède 1801 (= Labrus opercularis Linnaeus 1758.). Type by monotypy. Unjustifiably emended to Macropus (not of Shaw 1790, Latrielle 1802 or Thunberg 1805) by Günther 1861:(372) 381 [ref. 1964]. The ICZN in Opinion 2058 changed the spelling of the subfamily to Macropodusinae to remove homonymy in family-group names in mammals. •Valid as Macropodus Lacepède 1801 -- (Liem 1962:37 [ref. 20932], Jayaram 1981:381 [ref. 6497], Uyeno & Arai in Masuda et al. 1984:122 [ref. 6441], Vierke 1986:102 [ref. 36452], Vierke 1988:146 [ref. 36453], Ataur Rahman 1989:283 [ref. 24860], Zhong in Pan et al. 1991:509 [ref. 23876], Britz 2001:316 [ref. 25717], Freyhof & Herder 2002:147 [ref. 26072], Naseka & Bogutskaya 2004:280 [ref. 27838], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:238 [ref. 28183], Winstanley & Clements 2008:1 [ref. 29886], Kottelat 2013:453 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:208 [ref. 34477], Fricke et al. 2018:366 [ref. 35805]). Current status: Valid as Macropodus Lacepède 1801. Osphronemidae: Macropodusinae.