#family_Clupeidae__Clupeidae  herrings; shad; sardines; etc.
  supertype:  fish_family  any of various families of fish
  member of:  order_Isospondyli
  member:  clupeid_fish__clupeidfish__clupeid  any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
  member:  genus_Alosa__Alosa  shad
     member:  shad  herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to freshwater to spawn
     member:  Alosa_pseudoharengus__alewife__Pomolobus_pseudoharengus  shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
  member:  genus_Pomolobus__Pomolobus  genus to which the alewife is sometimes assigned
  member:  genus_Brevoortia__Brevoortia  menhaden
     member:  menhaden__Brevoortia_tyrannis  shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
  member:  genus_Clupea__Clupea  type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings
     member:  Clupea_harangus__herring  commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
     member:  Atlantic_herring__Clupea_harengus_harengus  important food fish; found in enormous shoals in North Atlantic
     member:  Pacific_herring__Clupea_harengus_pallasii  important food fish of the north Pacific
     member:  Clupea_sprattus__brisling__sprat  small herring processed like a sardine
  member:  genus_Sardina__Sardina__genus_Sardinia  pilchards
     member:  Sardina_pilchardus__pilchard__sardine  small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
  member:  genus_Sardinops__Sardinops  pilchards
     member:  Pacific_sardine__Sardinops_caerulea  small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America

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