Clupea
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161721 via WoRMS external link
Clupea is a genus of planktivorous bony fish belonging to the family Clupeidae, commonly known as herrings. They are found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1992 and 2016.R
- 5
- observations
- 5
- records
- 1992–2016
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125716")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125716'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
- sp Clupea pallasii Pacific herring5
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Clupeidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · xgirouxb · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Clupea pallasii · source
- Photo · Les Leighton · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Clupea” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354872168
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗