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Clupeoidei
Sign in to saveClupeoidei is a suborder of marine and freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Clupeiformes, an order which includes the herrings, anchovies and shads.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Clupeoidei
- Collections
- UCMP, YPM
- Recorded in
- United States
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Clupeiformes
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Clupeoidei is a suborder of marine and freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Clupeiformes, an order which includes the herrings, anchovies and shads.
==Classification== The Clupeoidei has the following families classified within it: Family Spratelloididae Jordan, 1925 (dwarf herrings or small round herrings) Family Engraulidae Gill, 1861 (anchovies) Subfamily Coiliinae Bleeker, 1872 (Old World anchovies) Subfamily Engraulinae Gill, 1861 (anchovies) Family Clupeidae Cuvier, 1816 (herrings and sprats) Family Chirocentridae Bleeker, 1849 (wolf herrings) Family Dussumieriidae Gill, 1861 (round herrings or rainbow sardines) Family Pristigasteridae Bleeker, 1872 (longfin herrings) Family Ehiravidae Deraniyagala, 1929 (river sprats) Family Alosidae Svetovidov, 1952 (shads and sardines) Family Dorosomatidae Gill, 1861 (thread herrings or gizzard shads and sardinellas) The following extinct taxa are also known: Genus †Beksinskiella Granica, Bieńowska-Wasiluki & Paldyna, 2024 Genus †Nolfia De Figueiredo, 2009 Genus †Pseudoellima De Figueiredo, 2009 Family †Cynoclupeidae Malabarba & Di Dario, 2017
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