Cheiloprionini, Whitley, 1929

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Tribe Cheiloprionini .

— This tribe is the basal member of the subfamily Pomacentrinae . It contains four genera ( Cheiloprion , Chrysiptera sensu stricto, Dischistodus , and Pomachromis ) and lineages of ‘‘ Chrysiptera ’’ not most closely related to C. cyanea . Most studies with sufficient taxon sampling have found a clade consistent with that composition in the same part of the tree (Cooper et al., 2009; Cowman and Bellwood, 2011; Hofmann et al., 2012; Litsios et al., 2012a, 2012b; Frédérich et al., 2013; Rabosky et al., 2013, 2018; Lobato et al., 2014; DiBattista et al., 2016; Gaboriau et al., 2018; Delrieu-Trottin et al., 2019). In addition to the coral specialist, Cheiloprion , the rest of the tribe shows a wide variety of diets, ranging from herbivores (including algal farmers) to omnivores (including detritivores) and planktivores ( Pratchett et al., 2016). Most of the diversity in this group comes from species historically classified as Chrysiptera , which is broadly polyphyletic.