#clupeid_fish__clupeidfish__clupeid  any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
  supertype:  #soft-finned_fish__malacopterygian  any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
  member of:  #family_Clupeidae
  subtype:  #shad  herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to freshwater to spawn
     subtype:  #common_American_shad__Alosa_sapidissima  shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast
     subtype:  #river_shad__rivershad__alosachrysoclori  shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima
     subtype:  #allice_shad__allis_shad__allisshad__allice__allis__alli__Alosa_alosa  European shad
  subtype:  #Alosa_pseudoharengus__alewife__Pomolobus_pseudoharengus  shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
  subtype:  #menhaden__Brevoortia_tyrannis  shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
  subtype:  #Clupea_harangus__herring  commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
     subtype:  #Atlantic_herring__Clupea_harengus_harengus  important food fish; found in enormous shoals in North Atlantic
     subtype:  #Pacific_herring__Clupea_harengus_pallasii  important food fish of the north Pacific
  subtype:  #sardine  any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
     subtype:  #sild  any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway
     subtype:  #Clupea_sprattus__brisling__sprat  small herring processed like a sardine
  subtype:  #Sardina_pilchardus__pilchard__sardine  small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
     subtype:  #Pacific_sardine__Sardinops_caerulea  small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America

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