Clupeiformes
Appearance
Clupeiformes Temporal range: Late Jurassic to present
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Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Cohort: | Otocephala |
Superorder: | Clupeomorpha |
Order: | Clupeiformes Goodrich, 1909 |
Families | |
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Clupeiformes is the order of ray-finned fish that includes the herring family, Clupeidae, and the anchovy family, Engraulidae. The group includes many of the most important forage and food fish.
Clupeiformes are physostomes, which means that the gas bladder has a pneumatic duct connecting it to the gut. They typically lack a lateral line, but still have the eyes, fins and scales that are common to most fish, though not all fish have these attributes. They are generally silvery fish with streamlined, spindle-shaped, bodies, and they often school. Most species eat plankton which they filter from the water with their gill rakers.[1]
Families
Phylogeny of Clupeiformes by Lavoué et al 2014.[2] | |||||||||
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The order includes about 405 species in seven families:[3][4]
- Order Clupeiformes
- Suborder Denticipitoidei
- Family Denticipitidae (denticle herring)
- Suborder Clupeoidei
- Family Engraulidae (anchovies)
- Subfamily Coiliinae
- Subfamily Engraulinae
- Family Spratelloididae
- Family Pristigasteridae (longfin herrings)
- Subfamily Pristigasterinae
- Subfamily Pelloninae
- Family Chirocentridae (wolf herrings)
- Family Dussumieriidae s.s. (round herrings)
- Family Clupeidae [incl. Sundasalangidae) (herrings, sardines, shads, and menhadens)
- Subfamily Clupeinae
- Subfamily Ehiravinae
- Subfamily Alosinae
- Subfamily Dorosomatinae
- Family Engraulidae (anchovies)
- Suborder Denticipitoidei
Timeline of genera
References
- ^ Nelson, Gareth (1998). Paxton, J.R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 91–95. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
- ^ Sébastien Lavoué, Peter Konstantinidis & Wei-Jen Chen: Progress in Clupeiform Systematics. in Konstantinos Ganias (Hrsg.): Biology and Ecology of Sardines and Anchovies. CRC Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1482228540
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Order Clupeiformes". FishBase. August 2012 version.
- ^ Lavoue ´ S; Miya M; Musikasinthorn P; Chen W-J; Nishida M (2013). "Mitogenomic Evidence for an Indo-West Pacific Origin of the Clupeoidei (Teleostei: Clupeiformes)". PLoS ONE. 8 (2): e56485. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...856485L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056485. PMC 3576394. PMID 23431379.
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- Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2011-05-17.