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Clupeidae is the family of the herring
Herring

Herring are small, oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea....
s, shad
Shad

The shads or river herrings comprise the genus Alosa, fish related to herring in the family Clupeidae. They are distinct from others in that family by having a deeper body and spawning in rivers....
s, sardine
Sardine

Sardines, or pilchards, are a group of several types of small, oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae. Sardines were named after the island of Sardinia, where they were once in abundance....
s, hilsa
Hilsa

Hilsa is the national fish of Bangladesh, also popular in India's Assamese language-, Bengali language- and Oriya language-speaking regions and in Pakistan Sindh ....
 and menhaden
Menhaden

Menhaden, also known as mossbunker and pogy, are fish of the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, two genera of marine fish in the family Clupeidae....
s. It includes many of the most important food fishes in the world.

Description and biology
Clupeids are mostly marine, although a few species are found in freshwater. No species has scales on the head, and some are entirely scaleless. The lateral line
Lateral line

In aquatic organisms , the lateral line is a sense organ used to detect movement and vibration in the surrounding water. Lateral lines are usually visible as faint lines running lengthwise down each side, from the vicinity of the Operculum s to the base of the tail....
 is short or absent, and the teeth are unusually small where they are present at all.






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Clupeidae is the family of the herring
Herring

Herring are small, oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea....
s, shad
Shad

The shads or river herrings comprise the genus Alosa, fish related to herring in the family Clupeidae. They are distinct from others in that family by having a deeper body and spawning in rivers....
s, sardine
Sardine

Sardines, or pilchards, are a group of several types of small, oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae. Sardines were named after the island of Sardinia, where they were once in abundance....
s, hilsa
Hilsa

Hilsa is the national fish of Bangladesh, also popular in India's Assamese language-, Bengali language- and Oriya language-speaking regions and in Pakistan Sindh ....
 and menhaden
Menhaden

Menhaden, also known as mossbunker and pogy, are fish of the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, two genera of marine fish in the family Clupeidae....
s. It includes many of the most important food fishes in the world.

Description and biology


Clupeids are mostly marine, although a few species are found in freshwater. No species has scales on the head, and some are entirely scaleless. The lateral line
Lateral line

In aquatic organisms , the lateral line is a sense organ used to detect movement and vibration in the surrounding water. Lateral lines are usually visible as faint lines running lengthwise down each side, from the vicinity of the Operculum s to the base of the tail....
 is short or absent, and the teeth are unusually small where they are present at all. Clupeids typically feeds on plankton
Plankton

Plankton consist of any drifting organisms that inhabit the pelagic zone of oceans, seas, or bodies of fresh water. Plankton are defined by their ecological niche rather than their Phylogenetics or taxonomy classification....
, and range from to in length.

Clupeids spawn huge numbers of eggs (up to 200,000 in some species) near the surface of the water. After hatching, the larvae live among the plankton
Plankton

Plankton consist of any drifting organisms that inhabit the pelagic zone of oceans, seas, or bodies of fresh water. Plankton are defined by their ecological niche rather than their Phylogenetics or taxonomy classification....
 until they develop a swim bladder and transform into adults. The adults typically live in large shoal
Shoal

Things known as shoal, shoals or shoaling include:* Shoal, a sandbank or reef creating shallow water, especially where it forms a hazard to shipping...
s.

Commercial species

Important commercial species include:
  • Atlantic menhaden
    Atlantic menhaden

    The Atlantic menhaden is a silvery, highly compressed fish in the herring family, Clupeidae. A filter feeder, it lives on plankton caught in midwater....
    , Brevoortia tyrannus
  • Atlantic herring
    Atlantic herring

    Atlantic herring is one of the most abundant species of fish on the planet. They can be found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean congregating together in large schools ....
    , Clupea harengus
  • Baltic herring, Clupea harengus membras
  • Pacific herring
    Pacific herring

    The Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii, is a species of the herring family associated with the Pacific Ocean environment of North America and East Asia....
    , Clupea pallasii
  • European pilchard, Sardina pilchardus


Genera

  • Subfamily Dussumieriinae (round herrings)
    • Dayella
      Dayella

      Dayella may refer to:*A fabric once manufactured by the makers of Viyella*A kind of herring...
    • Dussumieria
    • Etrumeus
    • Gilchristella
    • Jenkinsia
      Jenkinsia

      Jenkinsia is a genus of fish in the Clupeidae family.It contains the following species:* venezuelan herring ...
    • Luisiella
      Luisiella

      is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch....
    • Sauvagella
      Sauvagella

      Sauvagella is a genus of fish in the Clupeidae family.It contains the following species:* Sauvagella madagascariensis*       Sauvagella robusta...
    • Spratelloides
    • Spratellomorpha
      Spratellomorpha

      Spratellomorpha is a genus of fish in the Clupeidae family.It contains the following species:* two-finned round herring ...
  • Subfamily Clupeinae
    • Amblygaster
    • Clupea
      Herring

      Herring are small, oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea....
    • Clupeonella
      Clupeonella

      Clupeonella is a genus of fish in the Clupeidae family.It contains the following species:* Clupeonella abrau* Black Sea sprat...
    • Escualosa
    • Harengula
    • Herklotsichthys
    • Lile
    • Opisthonema
  • Subfamily Alosinae (shads, menhadens)
    • Alosa
    • Brevoortia
    • Ethmalosa
    • Ethmidium
    • Gudusia
    • Hilsa
    • Tenualosa
      Tenualosa

      Tenualosa is a genus of fish in the Clupeidae family.It contains the following species:* Tenualosa thibaudeaui* Hilsa...
  • Subfamily Pellonulinae (freshwater herrings}
    • Knightia
      Knightia

      Knightia is an extinct genus of fish well-known from abundant fossils found in the Green River Formation of Wyoming, United States. They rarely exceeded 25 cm in length and are found throughout the formation....
       (prehistoric)
    • Clupeichthys
    • Clupeoides
    • Congothrissa
    • Corica
    • Cynothrissa
    • Ehirava
    • Hyperlophus
      Hyperlophus

      Hyperlophus is a genus of sprat fish.Sprats*Sandy sprat*Glassy sprat...
    • Laeviscutella
    • Limnothrissa
    • Microthrissa
    • Minyclupeoides
    • Odaxothrissa
    • Pellonula
    • Poecilothrissa
    • Potamalosa
    • Potamothrissa
    • Stalothrissa
  • Subfamily Dorosomatinae (gizzard shads)
    • Anodontostoma
    • Clupanodon
    • Dorosoma
      Dorosoma

      Dorosoma is a genus of gizzard shads, fish of the herring family Clupeidae. The five species are native to the New World, and are known from both freshwater and the waters of estuaries and bays....
    • Gonialosa
    • Konosirus
    • Nematalosa
  • Incertae sedis (position uncertain)
    • Erichalcis
    • Ilisha
      Ilisha

      Ilisha may refer to:* Ilisha , a genus of fish* Hilsa, another species of fish...
    • Nannothrissa
    • Neoopisthopterus
    • Pellona
    • Platanichthys
    • Ramnogaster
    • Rhinosardinia
    • Sardina
    • Sardinella
      Sardinella

      Sardinella is a genus of fishes in the family Clupeidae....
    • Sardinops
    • Sierrathrissa
    • Sprattus
      Sprattus

      Sprattus is a Genus of small oily fish of the Family Clupeidae. They are commonly fried and eaten in British cuisine....
    • Stolothrissa
    • Strangomera
    • Thrattidion