Clupeinae
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Atlantic herring ( Clupea harengus ) |
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| Cuvier , 1817 |
The Clupeinae are a subfamily of the herring (Clupeidae) that occurs mainly in temperate regions of the world's oceans .
features
The Clupeinae are elongated, silvery schooling fish that can reach body lengths of 6 to 45 cm. The monophyly of the Clupeinae cannot be proven by morphological diagnostic features . The composition of the subfamily was determined by DNA comparisons .
Genera and species
The Clupeinae include 15 species in 7 genera.
- Genus Clupea Linnaeus, 1758
- Atlantic herring ( Clupea harengus ) Linnaeus, 1758
- Clupea manulensis Marion de Procé, 1822
- Pacific herring ( Clupea pallasii ) Valenciennes, 1847
- Genus Ethmidium Thompson, 1916
- Ethmidium maculatum (Valenciennes, 1847)
- Genus sand sprat ( Hyperlophus ) Ogilby, 1892
- Hyperlophus translucidus McCulloch, 1917
- Hyperlophus vittatus (Castelnau, 1875)
- Genus Potamalosa Ogilby, 1897
- Potamalosa richmondia (Macleay, 1879)
- Genus Ramnogaster Whitehead, 1965
- Ramnogaster arcuata (Jenyns, 1842)
- Ramnogaster melanostoma (Eigenmann, 1907)
- Genus sprats ( Sprattus ) Girgensohn, 1846
- Sprattus antipodum (Hector, 1872)
- Sprattus fuegensis (Jenyns, 1842)
- Sprattus muelleri (Klunzinger, 1879)
- Sprattus novaehollandiae (Valenciennes, 1847)
- European sprat ( Sprattus sprattus ) (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Genus Strangomera Whitehead, 1965
- Chilean herring ( Strangomera bentincki ) Norman, 1936
use
Three species of the Clupeinae, the Atlantic herring ( Clupea harengus ), the Chilean herring ( Strangomera bentincki ) and the European sprat ( Sprattus sprattus ) are among the 15 economically most important fish species.
literature
- Sébastien Lavoué, Peter Konstantinidis & Wei-Jen Chen: Progress in Clupeiform Systematics. in Konstantinos Ganias (Ed.): Biology and Ecology of Sardines and Anchovies. CRC Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1482228540
Web links
- Clupeinae on Fishbase.org (English)