:Luciocephalinae

{{Short description|Subfamily of fishes}}

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| image = Luciocephalus pulcher (Gray, 1830).jpg

| image_caption = Luciocephalus pulcher

| taxon = Luciocephalinae

| authority = Bleeker, 1852{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.3882.1.1/33563 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}

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Luciocephalinae is a subfamily of the gourami family Osphronemidae.{{cite web | url = https://www.fishbase.in/identification/SpeciesList.php?class=&order=&famcode=429&subfamily=Luciocephalinae&areacode=&c_code=&depth=&spines=&fins=&TL=&BD=&resultPage=1&sortby=species | title = Family: Osphronemidae Gouramies Subfamily: Luciocephalinae | accessdate = 14 December 2019 | publisher = Fishbase}} The members of this subfamily differ from the other groups within the gourami family by having a reduced number of rays supporting the branchiostegal membrane, five rather than six, and in the possession of a median process of the basioccipital which reaches the first vertebra and which has an attachment to the Baudelot's ligament.{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=393 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2019-12-14 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}