clupeid

English
A clupeid, Clupea harengus (Atlantic herring)

Noun

clupeid (plural clupeids)

  1. 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.
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