clupeoid

Related to clupeoid: Engraulidae

clupeoid

(ˈkluːpɪˌɔɪd)
adj
(Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Isospondyli (or Clupeiformes), a large order of soft-finned fishes, including the herrings, salmon, and tarpon
n
(Animals) any fish belonging to the order Isospondyli
[C19: from Latin clupea small fish + -oid]
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A preliminar survey of the clupeoid fishes in Trinidad, West Indies, and their use in live bait fishing.
As the Lagoon is considered a hypertrophic system (LOUREIRO et al., 2001) the menhaden, a filter-feeding clupeoid fish, is the most impacted species, especially in events of eutrophication, and dies first.
Temporal succession and spatial segregation of clupeoid larvae in the coastal waters off the Tanshui River Estuary, northern Taiwan.
Rodriguez et al., "Mesoscale distribution of clupeoid larvae in an upwelling filament trapped by a quasi-permanent cyclonic eddy off northwest Africa," Deep-Sea Research I, vol.
The study area, that is the NE Baltic Sea, is also inhabited by very abundant two other clupeoid species: spring herring and sprat, which both can induce density-dependent effects (Casini et al., 2011).
Under expectations of neutrality theory (Kimura 1983), taxa that have maintained high population sizes over evolutionary timeframes should have high genetic diversity, and this expectation has been empirically confirmed in mtDNA surveys of other clupeoid filter-feeders (Kornfield and Bogdanowicz 1987; Bowen and Avise 1990; Magoulas et al.
Pelagic clupeoid and carangid resources for fishery development in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.
The clupeoid fishes of genus Ilisha (Osteichthyes: Pristigasteridae) comprise 13 known species, which are distributed in the Indo-Pacific region, i.e., Japan, China, Singapore, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Burma, India, Pakistan, Persian Gulf and Africa.
Such large changes in catch composition over the history of a fishery appear to be a characteristic of small pelagic clupeoid fisheries where declines in abundance of one species are offset by partial replacement by other species.
Vertical distribution of early developmental stages in two coexisting clupeoid species, Sardinella aurita and Engraulis encrasicolus.
Clupeoid fishes of the world: an annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings.