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Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Actinopterygii Order Clupeiformes Suborder Clupeoidei Family Clupeidae

Family Clupeidae
(herrings, menhadens, pilchards, sardines, shads, and sprats)




alewife
Alosa pseudoharengus
alewife
Alosa pseudoharengus
alewife
Alosa pseudoharengus
 
American shad
Alosa sapidissima
Atlantic menhaden
Brevoortia tyrannus
Atlantic herring
Clupea harengus
 
Pacific herring
Clupea pallasii
American gizzard shad
Dorosoma cepedianum
American gizzard shad
Dorosoma cepedianum
 
European pilchard
Sardina pilchardus
Pacific sardine
Sardinops sagax
hilsa shad
Tenualosa ilisha
 
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Citation: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2008. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed November 22, 2009 at http://animaldiversity.org.

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