Empetrichthyinae

{{Short description|Subfamily of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Pliocene|present}}

| image = Empetrichthys latos.jpg

| image_caption = Empetrichthys latos

| taxon = Empetrichthyinae

| authority = Jordan, Evermann & Clark, 1930{{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 | 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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Empetrichthyinae is a subfamily of fishes, one of two subfamilies that make up the family Goodeidae.{{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=373 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2019-09-17 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}

The earliest fossil empetrichthyine is Empetrichthys erdisi from the Miocene or Pliocene of California.{{Cite journal |last=Webb |first=Shane A. |last2=Graves |first2=Jefferson A. |last3=Macias-Garcia |first3=Constantino |last4=Magurran |first4=Anne E. |last5=Foighil |first5=Diarmaid Ó |last6=Ritchie |first6=Michael G. |date=2004-03-01 |title=Molecular phylogeny of the livebearing Goodeidae (Cyprinodontiformes) |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790303002574 |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=527–544 |doi=10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00257-4 |issn=1055-7903|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Jimenez |first=Miguel |last2=Goodchild |first2=Shawn C. |last3=Stockwell |first3=Craig A. |last4=Lema |first4=Sean C. |date=2017-08-30 |title=Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes for two desert cyprinodontoid fishes, Empetrichthys latos and Crenichthys baileyi |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378111917303566 |journal=Gene |volume=626 |pages=163–172 |doi=10.1016/j.gene.2017.05.023 |issn=0378-1119|url-access=subscription }}