Subfamily Pyrrhulininae Bleeker 1859

Pyrrhulinini Bleeker 1859d:XXX [ref. 371] (cohors) Pyrrhulina

Nannostomi Gill 1896e:205 [ref. 1739] (no family-group name)

Nannostomatinae Eigenmann 1909a:35 [ref. 1222] (subfamily) Nannostomus [stem changed to Nannostom- by Regan 1911e:21 [ref. 3642], confirmed by Fowler 1913:523 [ref. 1389], by Weitzman 1966:1 [ref. 12368] and by Géry 1972b:50 [ref. 1594]; subfamily name sometimes seen as Narmostomatinae]