Clupeomorpha
{{Short description|Superorder of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Early Cretaceous to present, {{fossil range|140|0}}
| image = Herring2.jpg
| image_caption = Atlantic herring, (Clupea harengus)
| taxon = Clupeomorpha
| authority = Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966{{cite journal |author=Thomas J. Near |author2=Christine E. Thacker |title=Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii) |journal=Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History |date=2024 |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=3–302 |doi=10.3374/014.065.0101|bibcode=2024BPMNH..65..101N }}
| 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 Berriasian/Valanginian boundary, with the genus Ellimmichthys.{{Cite journal |last1=de Figueiredo |first1=Francisco J. |last2=Gallo |first2=Valéria |date=2021-01-01 |title=Revision of †Ellimmichthys longicostatus (Clupeomorpha: †Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil with comments on the taxonomy of related species |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981120305496 |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=105 |pages=103006 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2020.103006 |bibcode=2021JSAES.10503006D |issn=0895-9811}}
Classification
Clupeomorpha contains the following taxa:{{cite book |author1=Nelson, J.S. |author1-link=Joseph S. Nelson |author2=Grande, T.C. |author3=Wilson, M.V.H. |year=2016 |title=Fishes of the World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yqw7CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA752 |edition=5th |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |place=Hoboken, NJ |pages=162–163 |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |lccn=2015037522 |oclc=951899884 |ol=25909650M |doi=10.1002/9781119174844}}{{cite web |url=https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/catalog-of-fishes-classification |title=Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes Classification |access-date=5 November 2024 |publisher=California Academy of Sciences}}{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 1–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}{{cite journal |author=Van der Laan, Richard |year=2018 |title=Family-group names of fossil fishes |journal=European Journal of Taxonomy |issue=466 |doi=10.5852/ejt.2018.466}}{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=txn:92059 |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=paleobiodb.org}}
- Genus {{extinct}}Beurlenichthys de Figueiredo & Gallo, 2004
- Genus {{extinct}}Leufuichthys Gallo et al., 2011
- Genus {{extinct}}Ornategulum Forey, 1973
- Genus {{extinct}}Scombroclupea Kner, 1863
- {{extinct}}Order Ellimmichthyiformes Grande, 1982
- {{extinct}}Family Armitagidae A. M. Murray & M. V. H. Wilson, 2013
- {{extinct}}Family Sorbinichthyidae Bannikov & Bacchia, 2000
- {{extinct}}Family Paraclupeidae Chang & Chou, 1974 (= Ellimmichthyidae Grande, 1982)
- 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)