#order_Isospondyli__Isospondyli  most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon
  supertype:  #animal_order  the order of animals
  member of:  #superorder_Malacopterygii
  member:  #family_Gonorhynchidae__Gonorhynchidae  coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus
     member:  #genus_Gonorhynchus__Gonorhynchus  slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth
        member:  #beaked_salmon__sandfish__Gonorhynchus_gonorhynchus  fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
  member:  #family_Clupeidae__Clupeidae  herrings; shad; sardines; etc.
     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
  member:  #family_Engraulidae__Engraulidae  anchovies
     member:  #anchovy  small herring-like plankton-feeding fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
  member:  #family_Salmonidae__Salmonidae  salmon and trout
     member:  #salmonid  soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters
     member:  #salmon  any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
     member:  #genus_Salmo__Salmo  type genus of the Salmonidae: salmon and trout
        member:  #Salmo_salar__Atlantic_salmon  found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning
        member:  #brown_trout__browntrout__salmon_trout__Salmo_trutta  speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America
        member:  #Salmo_gairdneri__rainbow_trout__rainbowtrout  found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska
     member:  #genus_Onchorynchus__Onchorynchus  sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; coho salmon
        member:  #blueback_salmon__sockeye__sockeyesalmon__redsalmon__Onchorynchus_nerka  small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the north Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
        member:  #quinnat_salmon__quinnatsalmon__chinook__chinooksalmon__king_salmon__Onchorynchus_tshawtscha  large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
        member:  #blue_jack__coho__cohoe__coho_salmon__silver_salmon__Onchorynchus_kisutch  small salmon of north Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
     member:  #genus_Salvelinus__Salvelinus  brook trout
        member:  #Salvelinus_namaycush__lake_trout__salmon_trout  large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States
        member:  #Salvelinus_fontinalis__brook_trout__speckled_trout  North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe
        member:  #char  any of several small-scaled trout
  member:  #family_Coregonidae__Coregonidae  soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae
     member:  #whitefish  silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
     member:  #genus_Coregonus__Coregonus  type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes
        member:  #lake_whitefish__Coregonus_clupeaformis  found in Great Lakes and north to Alaska
        member:  #Coregonus_artedi__cisco__lake_herring  important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
     member:  #genus_Prosopium__Prosopium  whitefishes
        member:  #round_whitefish__Menominee_whitefish__Prosopium_cylindraceum  bronze-backed whitefish of northern North America and Siberia
        member:  #Rocky_Mountain_whitefish__Prosopium_williamsonii  whitefish of the western United States and Canada
  member:  #family_Osmeridae__Osmeridae  smelts
     member:  #smelt  small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
     member:  #genus_Osmerus__Osmerus  type genus of the Osmeridae
        member:  #rainbow_smelt__rainbowsmelt__Osmerus_mordax  important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska
        member:  #Osmerus_eperlanus__sparling__European_smelt  the common smelt of Europe
     member:  #genus_Mallotus__Mallotus  capelins
        member:  #capelin__capelan__caplin  very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes
  member:  #family_Elopidae__Elopidae  tarpons and ladyfishes
     member:  #genus_Tarpon  tarpons
        member:  #tarpon__Tarpon_atlanticus  large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida
     member:  #genus_Elops__Elops  type genus of the Elopidae: tenpounder
        member:  #ladyfish__tenpounder__Elops_saurus  game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller
  member:  #family_Albulidae__Albulidae  bonefish
     member:  #genus_Albula__Albula  type and sole genus of the family Albulidae
        member:  #bonefish__Albula_vulpes  slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons
  member:  #family_Argentinidae__Argentinidae  small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts
     member:  #genus_Argentina__Argentina  type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines
        member:  #argentine  any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes
  member:  #family_Myctophidae__Myctophidae  deep-sea fishes comprising the lantern fishes
     member:  #lanternfish  small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night

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