Clupeoidei

Clupeoidei Temporal range: Late Barremian to present, 122–0  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Atlantic herring, (Clupea harengus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Clupeiformes
Suborder:	Clupeoidei Bleeker, 1849 [1]
Families
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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: ^{[2] [3]}

• 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 ^[4]
• Genus † Nolfia De Figueiredo, 2009 ^[5]
• Genus † Pseudoellima De Figueiredo, 2009 ^[6]
• Family †Cynoclupeidae Malabarba & Di Dario, 2017 ^[7]

References

1. Thomas J. Near; Christine E. Thacker (2024). "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65 (1): 3–302. Bibcode:2024BPMNH..65..101N. doi:10.3374/014.065.0101.
2. "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification". California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 5 November 2024.
3. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 . PMID   25543675.
4. Pałdyna, Marcin; Bieńkowska-Wasiluk, Małgorzata; Granica, Mateusz (2024). "A new clupeoid genus from the Oligocene of Central Paratethys (Menilite Formation, Poland)". Acta Geologica Polonica. 74 (1): E5. doi: 10.24425/agp.2024.148029 . ISSN   0001-5709.
5. De Figueiredo, Francisco J. (2009-07-21). "A new marine clupeoid fish from the Lower Cretaceous of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, northeastern Brazil" . Zootaxa. 2164 (1): 21–32. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2164.1.2. ISSN   1175-5334.
6. Francisco J. De Figueiredo (2009). "A new clupeiform fish from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) of Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Northeastern Brazil". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 29 (4): 993–1005. Bibcode:2009JVPal..29..993D. doi:10.1671/039.029.0402. S2CID   220436023.
7. Malabarba, Maria C.; Dario, Fabio Di (2017). "A new predatory herring-like fish (Teleostei: Clupeiformes) from the early Cretaceous of Brazil, and implications for relationships in the Clupeoidei". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 180 (1): 175–194.