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68 relations: Actinopterygii, Alisea, Alosa, Alosinae, Anchoa, Anchovy, Atlantic herring, Austroclupea, Clupea, Clupeidae, Clupeinae, Cretaceous, Daitingichthys, Denticle herring, Dussumieriidae, Early Cretaceous, Early Jurassic, Engraulis, Eocene, Etringus, Etrumeus, European pilchard, Fish as food, Fish fin, Fish scale, Forage fish, Ganoessus, Ganolytes, Gasteroclupea, Gastrointestinal tract, Gill raker, Hacquetia, Harengula, Herring, Histiothrissa, Holocene, Ilisha, Jurassic, Knightia, Late Cretaceous, Late Jurassic, Lateral line, Middle Jurassic, Miocene, Neogene, Oligocene, Opisthonema, Ornategulum, Pachythrissops, Paleocene, ..., Paleogene, Physostome, Pieter Bleeker, Plankton, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Pristigasteridae, Quaternary, Quisque, Sardinella, Sardinops, Scombroclupea, Shoaling and schooling, Stolephorus, Sundasalanx, Swim bladder, Wolf herring, Xyne. Expand index (18 more) »
Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii, or the ray-finned fishes, constitute a class or subclass of the bony fishes.
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Alisea
Alisea is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch.
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Alosa
Alosa is a genus of fish, the river herrings, in the family Clupeidae.
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Alosinae
The Alosinae, or the shads, ITIS are a subfamily of fishes in the herring family Clupeidae.
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Anchoa
Anchoa is a genus of anchovies.
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Anchovy
An anchovy is a small, common forage fish of the family Engraulidae.
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Atlantic herring
Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) is a herring in the family Clupeidae.
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Austroclupea
Austroclupea is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Pliocene epoch.
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Clupea
Clupea is genus of planktivorous bony fish belonging to the family Clupeidae, commonly known as herrings.
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Clupeidae
Clupeidae is a family of ray-finned fishes, comprising, for instance, the herrings, shads, sardines, ilish, and menhadens.
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Clupeinae
Clupeinae is a subfamily of herrings, sardines and sprats belonging to the family Clupeidae.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.
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Daitingichthys
Daitingichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the early Toarcian stage of the Early Jurassic epoch.
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Denticle herring
The denticle herring (Denticeps clupeoides) is a small (15-cm-long) species of ray-finned fish found only in the rivers of Benin, Nigeria, and western Cameroon; it is related to the herrings, but notable for its large anal fin and its array of denticle-like scales under the head, which give it almost a furry appearance.
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Dussumieriidae
Dussumieriidae is a family of clupeiform fishes popularly called the "round herrings".
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Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous/Middle Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.
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Early Jurassic
The Early Jurassic epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic period.
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Engraulis
Engraulis is a genus of anchovies.
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Eocene
The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.
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Etringus
Etringus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch.
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Etrumeus
Etrumeus is a genus of round herrings in the family, Dussumieriidae.
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European pilchard
The European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the monotypic genus, Sardina.
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Fish as food
Many species of fish are consumed as food in virtually all regions around the world.
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Fish fin
Fins are usually the most distinctive anatomical features of a fish.
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Fish scale
The skin of most fishes is covered with scales, which, in many cases, are animal reflectors or produce animal coloration.
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Forage fish
Forage fish, also called prey fish or bait fish, are small pelagic fish which are preyed on by larger predators for food.
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Ganoessus
Ganoessus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch.
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Ganolytes
Ganolytes is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch.
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Gasteroclupea
Gasteroclupea is a genus of prehistoric clupeiform fish that is related to modern anchovies and herrings.
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Gastrointestinal tract
The gastrointestinal tract (digestive tract, digestional tract, GI tract, GIT, gut, or alimentary canal) is an organ system within humans and other animals which takes in food, digests it to extract and absorb energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste as feces.
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Gill raker
Gill rakers in fish are bony or cartilaginous processes that project from the branchial arch (gill arch) and are involved with suspension feeding tiny prey.
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Hacquetia
Hacquetia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived from the early to middle Eocene.
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Harengula
Harengula is a genus of herrings that occur mostly in the western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, with one species in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Herring
Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family Clupeidae.
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Histiothrissa
Histiothrissa is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Santonian.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Ilisha
Ilisha may refer to.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.
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Knightia
Knightia is an extinct genus of clupeid clupeiform bony fish that lived in the fresh water lakes and rivers of North America and Asia during the Eocene epoch.
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Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.
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Late Jurassic
The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.
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Lateral line
The lateral line is a system of sense organs found in aquatic vertebrates, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.
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Middle Jurassic
The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Neogene
The Neogene (informally Upper Tertiary or Late Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period Mya.
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Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
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Opisthonema
Opisthonema, the thread herrings, is a genus of herring found in tropical waters of the Western Hemisphere.
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Ornategulum
Ornategulum is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Cenomanian.
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Pachythrissops
Pachythrissops is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Jurassic.
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Paleocene
The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch that lasted from about.
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Paleogene
The Paleogene (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Mya.
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Physostome
Physostomes are fishes that have a pneumatic duct connecting the gas bladder to the alimentary canal.
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Pieter Bleeker
Pieter Bleeker (July 10, 1819, Zaandam – January 24, 1878, The Hague) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.
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Plankton
Plankton (singular plankter) are the diverse collection of organisms that live in large bodies of water and are unable to swim against a current.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.
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Pristigasteridae
The Pristigasteridae are a family of fish related to the herrings, including the genera Ilisha, Pellona, and Pristigaster.
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Quaternary
Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
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Quisque
Quisque is an extinct genus of prehistoric herring that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch.
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Sardinella
Sardinella is a genus of fish in the family Clupeidae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.
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Sardinops
Sardinops is a monotypic genus of sardines of the family Clupeidae.
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Scombroclupea
Scombroclupea is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Cenomanian.
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Shoaling and schooling
In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling (pronounced), and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling (pronounced). In common usage, the terms are sometimes used rather loosely.
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Stolephorus
Stolephorus is a genus of fish in the Engraulidae family.
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Sundasalanx
Sundasalanx, the Sundaland noodlefishes, is the only genus in the family Sundasalangidae which belongs to the same order as the herrings and their relatives.
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Swim bladder
The swim bladder, gas bladder, fish maw or air bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of many bony fish (but not cartilaginous fish) to control their buoyancy, and thus to stay at their current water depth without having to waste energy in swimming.
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Wolf herring
The wolf herrings are a family (Chirocentridae) of two marine species of ray-finned fish related to the herrings.
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Xyne
Xyne is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clupeiformes
