The Pomacentrinae are a subfamily of damselfish (Pomacentridae). They live in coral and rock reefs in tropical and subtropical areas of the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific .
The subfamily was still used by the American-Australian ichthyologist Gerald R. Allen in his standard work "Damselfish of the World" as a collective taxon to accommodate all damselfish genera that cannot be assigned to the other subfamilies. Since a phylogenetic study in 2009, they have been identified as a monophyletic taxon with a different composition, including including the anemonefish , which Allen still has in its own subfamily . They form the species-rich crown group of damselfish.
Gerald R. Allen: Damselfish of the World . Mergus Verlag, Melle 1991, ISBN 3-88244-007-4
Cooper, Smith, Westneat: Exploring the radiation of a diverse reef fish family: Phylogenetics of the damselfishes (Pomacentridae), with new classifications based on molecular analyzes of all genera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 52, Issue 1, July 2009, Pages 1-16, doi : 10.1016 / j.ympev.2008.12.010
