Clupeomorpha

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title: "Clupeomorpha" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["fish-superorders", "otocephala", "extant-late-jurassic-first-appearances"] description: "Superorder of fishes" topic_path: "general/fish-superorders" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clupeomorpha" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Superorder of fishes ::

| fossil_range = | image = Herring2.jpg | image_caption = Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) | taxon = Clupeomorpha | authority = Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966 | subdivision_ranks = Orders | subdivision = see text Clupeomorpha is a superorder of ray-finned fish which belongs to the clade Otocephala. Represented today only by the diverse, economically-important order Clupeiformes (containing herrings, anchovies and allies), it was formerly even more diverse, with the extinct order Ellimmichthyiformes also known. Fossil records of this group date back to the Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic, with the ellimmichthyiform genera Aijaichthys and Ancashichthys.

Classification

Clupeomorpha contains the following taxa:

• Genus Beurlenichthys de Figueiredo & Gallo, 2004
• Genus Leufuichthys Gallo et al., 2011
• Genus Ornategulum Forey, 1973
• Genus Scombroclupea Kner, 1863
• Order Ellimmichthyiformes Grande, 1982
  • †Family Ancashichthyidae Ordóñez, Arratia, Tejada & Chacaltana, 2026
  • Family Armigatidae A. M. Murray & M. V. H. Wilson, 2013
  • Family Gasteroclupeidae Signeux, 1964
  • Family Paraclupeidae Chang & Chou, 1974 (= Ellimmichthyidae Grande, 1982)
  • Family Sorbinichthyidae Bannikov & Bacchia, 2000
• Order Clupeiformes Goodrich, 1909
  • Suborder Denticipitoidei Grande, 1982
    • Family Denticipitidae Clausen, 1959 (denticle herrings)
  • Suborder Clupeoidei Bleeker, 1849
    • Family Spratelloididae D. S. Jordan 1925 (dwarf herrings or small round herrings)
    • Family Engraulidae Gill, 1861 (anchovies)
    • Family Clupeidae Cuvier, 1816 (herrings and sprats)
    • Family Chirocentridae Bleeker, 1849 (wolf herrings)
    • Family Dussumieriidae Gill, 1861 (round herrings or rainbow sardines)
    • Family Pristigasteridae Bleeker, 1872 (longfin herrings)
    • Family Ehiravidae Deraniyagala, 1929 (river sprats)
    • Family Alosidae Svetovidov 1952 (shads and sardines)
    • Family Dorosomatidae Gill, 1861 (thread herrings or gizzard shads and sardinellas)

References

References

1. Thomas J. Near. (2024). "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
2. (2026). "Oldest †ellimmichthyiform fishes from Peru and the early radiation of Clupei". Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan.
3. (2016). "Fishes of the World". [[John Wiley & Sons]].
4. "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification". [[California Academy of Sciences]].
5. (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa.
6. Van der Laan, Richard. (2018). "Family-group names of fossil fishes". European Journal of Taxonomy.
7. "PBDB Taxon".

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