{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = Wolf herring | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|55|0}} <br />Eocene to Present<ref>{{cite journal | last = Sepkoski | first = Jack | author-link = | title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera | journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology | volume = 364 | issue = |page=560 | year = 2002 | url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class | doi = | id = | access-date = 2008-01-08 }}</ref> | image = Chirocentrus dorab JNC3219.JPG | image_caption = Dorab wolf-herring | parent_authority = Bleeker, 1849<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal |last1=Van Der Laan |first1=Richard |last2=Eschmeyer |first2=William N. |last3=Fricke |first3=Ronald |title=Family-group names of Recent fishes |journal=Zootaxa |date=11 November 2014 |volume=3882 |issue=1 |pages=1–230 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 |pmid=25543675 |doi-access=free }}</ref> | taxon = Chirocentrus | authority = Cuvier, 1816 | type_species = ''Clupea dorab'' | type_species_authority = Fabricius, 1775<ref name = CofF>{{Cof family|family=Chirocentridae|access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref> | synonyms = * ''Neosudis'' Castelnau, 1873 | synonyms_ref = <ref name = CofF/> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }} thumb|
'''Wolf herring''' are a family ('''Chirocentridae''') of two marine species of ray-finned fish related to herrings.
Both species have elongated bodies and jaws with long sharp teeth that aid their ravenous appetites, primarily for other fish.<ref name=EoF>{{cite book |editor=Paxton, J.R. |editor2=Eschmeyer, W.N.|author= Nelson, Gareth|year=1998|title=Encyclopedia of Fishes|publisher= Academic Press|location=San Diego|page= 94|isbn= 0-12-547665-5}}</ref> They can grow up to1 m in length and have silvery sides with bluish backs.
They are commercially fished and sold fresh or frozen.
Wolf Herring tend to stay near coastal waters off Africa and Asia, mostly in the Indian Ocean, but some Wolf Herrings have also been spotted near Australian beaches.
==Species== * ''Chirocentrus dorab'' <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small> - Dorab wolf-herring, found in warm coastal waters from the Red Sea to Japan and Australia * ''Chirocentrus nudus'' <small>Swainson, 1839</small> - whitefin wolf-herring, found in a similar range (This species is difficult to distinguish from ''C. dorab''; the former has a black mark on its dorsal fin. This species is also known to eat crabs in addition to its usual diet of smaller fish.)
==References== {{Reflist}}
Lavoué, S., Bertrand, J. A. M., Shen, K., Ratmuangkhwang, S., Sado, T., Miya, M., & Siti Azizah, M. N. (2019). Deep genetic differentiation between two morphologically similar species of wolf herrings (Teleostei, Clupeoidei, Chirocentridae). Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 35(3), 693–700. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.13886
Mohammadi, M., Mokhtarian, K., Kardar, G. A., Farrokhi, S., Sadroddiny, E., Khorramizadeh, M. R., & Falak, R. (2017). Expression of recombinant parvalbumin from wolf-herring fish and determination of its IgE-binding
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Category:Chirocentridae Category:Fish of the Indian Ocean Category:Extant Eocene first appearances Category:Taxa named by Georges Cuvier
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