{{Short description|Superorder of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Tithonian|0|Late Jurassic to present}} | image = Herring2.jpg | image_caption = Atlantic herring (''Clupea harengus'') | taxon = Clupeomorpha | authority = Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966<ref name = N&T>{{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 }}</ref> | 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 Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic, with the ellimmichthyiform genera ''Aijaichthys'' and ''Ancashichthys.''<ref name="Ancashichthyidae">{{Cite journal |last1=Ordóñez |first1=E. K. |last2=Arratia |first2=G. |last3=Tejada |first3=L. |last4=Chacaltana |first4=C. |year=2026 |title=Oldest †ellimmichthyiform fishes from Peru and the early radiation of Clupei |journal=Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=93–115 |doi=10.7302/28315}}</ref>
==Classification== Clupeomorpha contains the following taxa:<ref name = Nelson5>{{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}}</ref><ref name = ECOF>{{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}}</ref><ref name = VDLEF>{{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 }}</ref><ref name = N&T/><ref name = VDL>{{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|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=txn:92059 |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref> *Genus {{extinct}}''Beurlenichthys'' <small>de Figueiredo & Gallo, 2004</small> *Genus {{extinct}}''Leufuichthys'' <small>Gallo ''et al.'', 2011</small> *Genus {{extinct}}''Ornategulum'' <small>Forey, 1973</small> *Genus {{extinct}}''Scombroclupea'' <small>Kner, 1863</small> *{{extinct}}Order Ellimmichthyiformes <small>Grande, 1982</small> ** †Family Ancashichthyidae <small>Ordóñez, Arratia, Tejada & Chacaltana, 2026</small><ref name="Ancashichthyidae" /> ** {{extinct}}Family Armigatidae <small>A. M. Murray & M. V. H. Wilson, 2013</small> ** {{extinct}}Family Gasteroclupeidae <small>Signeux, 1964</small> ** {{extinct}}Family Paraclupeidae <small>Chang & Chou, 1974</small> (= Ellimmichthyidae <small>Grande, 1982</small>) ** {{extinct}}Family Sorbinichthyidae <small>Bannikov & Bacchia, 2000</small> * Order Clupeiformes <small>Goodrich, 1909</small> ** Suborder Denticipitoidei <small>Grande, 1982</small> *** Family Denticipitidae Clausen, 1959 (denticle herrings) ** Suborder Clupeoidei <small>Bleeker, 1849</small> *** Family Spratelloididae <small>D. S. Jordan 1925</small> (dwarf herrings or small round herrings) *** Family Engraulidae <small>Gill, 1861</small> (anchovies) *** Family Clupeidae <small>Cuvier, 1816</small> (herrings and sprats) *** Family Chirocentridae <small>Bleeker, 1849</small> (wolf herrings) *** Family Dussumieriidae <small>Gill, 1861</small> (round herrings or rainbow sardines) *** Family Pristigasteridae <small>Bleeker, 1872</small> (longfin herrings) *** Family Ehiravidae <small>Deraniyagala, 1929</small> (river sprats) *** Family Alosidae <small>Svetovidov 1952</small> (shads and sardines) *** Family Dorosomatidae <small>Gill, 1861</small> (thread herrings or gizzard shads and sardinellas)
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Category:Fish superorders Category:Otocephala Category:Extant Late Jurassic first appearances