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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Clupeiformes

WoRMS 10297ITIS 161694GBIF 538key worms:10297
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161694 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Emma Glenn · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Denticeps clupeoides

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Clupeiformes
Photo · Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Clupeiformes is the order of ray-finned fish that includes the herring family, Clupeidae, and the anchovy family, Engraulidae and sardines. The group includes many of the most important forage and food fish.W CalCOFI holds 71,500 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 14 taxa under it.R

71,500
observations
155,275
records
21
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
8
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 21 obs · 21 events · 1990–2022 · larva
    name used: Clupeiformes · code 9

Under it · 5 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:10297%22