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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Clupeidae

Herrings

WoRMS 125464ITIS 161700GBIF 7332key worms:125464
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161700 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · xgirouxb · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Clupea pallasii

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 Clupeidae
Photo · Jonathan Layman · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Clupeidae is a family of clupeiform ray-finned fishes, comprising, for instance, the herrings and sprats. Many members of the family have a body protected with shiny cycloid scales, a single dorsal fin, and a fusiform body for quick, evasive swimming and pursuit of prey composed of small planktonic animals.W CalCOFI holds 27 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1975 and 2016, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

27
observations
27
records
22
sampling events
1975–2016
years
1
datasets
1
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 22 obs · 22 events · 1975–2006 · larva
    name used: Clupeidae Herrings · code 15

Under it · 1 taxon

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:125464%22