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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Clupea

WoRMS 125716ITIS 161721key worms:125716
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161721 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 Clupea
Photo · Les Leighton · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125716")