Carapinae

{{Short description|Subfamily of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = EncheliophBoraborensorangkucing.jpg

| image_caption = A pinhead pearlfish, Encheliophis boraborensis, at Kaltim, Indonesia - night dive

| taxon = Carapinae

| authority = Poey, 1867{{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://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230}}

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Carapinae is a subfamily of pearlfishes, of the family Carapidae. The subfamily consists of four genera:{{cite web | url = https://www.fishbase.de/identification/SpeciesList.php?genus=Carapus | title = Carapus | accessdate = 8 July 2018 | publisher =FishBase}}

• Carapus Rafinesque, 1810
• Echiodon Thompson, 1837
• Encheliophis Müller, 1842
• Onuxodon J.L.B. Smith, 1955