clupeid
English
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A clupeid, Clupea harengus (Atlantic herring)
Noun
clupeid (plural clupeids)
- Any of many soft-finned fish of the family Clupeidae.
- 1973, Willis A. Evans, John Vanderpuye, Early Development of Fish Populations and Fisheries of Volta Lake, William C. Ackermann, Gilbert F. White, E. B. Worthington (editors), Man-Made Lakes: Their Problems and Environmental Effects, page 117,
- The open water expanses of the lake have been occupied mainly by two species of clupeids, as well as by Eutropius niloticus and Physailia pellucida.
- 1987, R. H. Lowe-McConnell, Ecological Studies in Tropical Fish Communities, page 90:
- In the pelagic zone of Lake Tanganyika, the endemic clupeids are planktivores which migrate surfacewards at night (cf. marine clupeids, p. 227).
- 2008, Gene Helfman, Bruce B. Collette, Douglas E. Facey, Brian W. Bowen, The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology, page 80,
- Although most marine fishes studied thus far cannot detect sound frequencies above about 500 Hz, at least some clupeids can detect considerably higher frequencies.
- 1973, Willis A. Evans, John Vanderpuye, Early Development of Fish Populations and Fisheries of Volta Lake, William C. Ackermann, Gilbert F. White, E. B. Worthington (editors), Man-Made Lakes: Their Problems and Environmental Effects, page 117,