clupeid fish


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Noun 1. clupeid fish - any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
Clupeidae, family Clupeidae - herrings; shad; sardines; etc.
shad - herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn
Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus, alewife - shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
Brevoortia tyrannis, menhaden - shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
Clupea harangus, herring - commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
sardine - any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
Sardina pilchardus, pilchard, sardine - small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
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"During a revisionary study of Sardinella, 21 specimens of a clupeid fish from the Philippines were found to be characterized by a unique combination of scales with centrally discontinuous striae, a dark spot on the dorsal-fin origin, and low counts of lateral scales in the longtitudinal and pseudobranchial filaments.
New species of sardines found in Manila Bay, other areas in Philippines
Diet of the Clupeid fish Platanichthys platana (Regan, 1917) in two different Brazilian coastal lagoons.
Reproductive dynamics of Lycengraulis grossidens (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae) and Platanichthysplatana (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) in a subtropical coastal lagoon/Dinamica reprodutiva de Lycengraulis grossidens (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae) e Platanichthys platana (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) em uma lagoa costeira subtropical
Recent range expansion of the freshwater mussel Anodonta implicata and its relationship to clupeid fish restoration in the Connecticut River system.
Early life history and distribution of pistolgrip (Tritogonia verrucosa (Rafinesque, 1820)) in Minnesota and Wisconsin
Because of the often-limited supply and expense of clupeid fish baits, a fish + formulated bait combination can extend the supply of fish while maintaining a high bait margin.
Evaluation of baits for harvesting procambarid crawfishes with emphasis on bait type and bait quantity
The length-length relationships have been reported to be significantly correlated in other studies such as the relationships between total, fork and standard length were all linear (for all cases: r2 greater than 0.93) for 37 fish species including the clupeid fish Sardinella aurita, in the Aegean Sea, Greece (Moutopoulos and Stergiou, 2002).
Length-Weight Relationship and Condition Factor of Ilisha melastoma (Clupeiformes: Pristigasteridae) Off Pakistan
DEPM has so far been applied mainly to some clupeid fish populations and is expected to be applied to other fish species including demersal fish (Stratoudakis et al., 2006).
The effect of temperature on the duration of spawning markers--migratory-nucleus and hydrated oocytes and postovulatory follicles--in the multiple-batch spawner Japanese flounder (Porolichthys olivoceus)
Laboratory rearing of the clupeid fish Harengula pensacolae from fertilized eggs.
Age and growth of the scaled herring, Harengula jaguana, from Florida waters, as indicated by microstructure of the sagittae
Moreover, clupeid fishes, fish juveniles, hard parts, Penaeid shrimps, euphausid and lucifer and Loligo spp.
Seasonal Variation in Diet Composition of Torpedo Trevally, Megalaspis cordyla (L) Depending upon its Size and Sex
Merriner (1975) examined the diet of weakfish captured in North Carolina waters and found that penaeid and mysid shrimps, anchovies, and clupeid fishes were the most common food items.
Diet composition, feeding strategy, and diet overlap of 3 sciaenids along the southeastern United States
Houde E, Fore P (1973) Guide to identity of eggs and larvae of some Gulf of Mexico Clupeid fishes. Leafl.
Tasa de crecimiento en larvas de Sardinella aurita Valenciennes, 1847 (Pisces: Clupeidae) del morro de Puerto Santo, Venezuela
Thread herrings, Opisthonema spp., are small, nearshore, pelagic clupeid fishes that form dense, surface schools in tropical to subtropical coastal waters.
Biology and fishery for Atlantic thread herring, Opisthonema oglinum, along the North Carolina coast
In Brazil, the parasitic fauna of clupeid fishes is poorly known, with most studies of taxonomy origin, performed by Vaz and Pereira (1930), Kohn and Buhrnheim (1964), Travassos et al.
Community ecology of the metazoan parasites of Brazilian sardinella, Sardinella brasiliensis (Steindachner, 1879) (Actinopterygii: Clupeidae) from the coastal zone of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/Ecologia da comunidade dos metazoarios parasitos da sardinha Sardinella brasiliensis (Steindachner, 1879) (Actinopterygii: Clupeidae) do litoral do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil