Clupeidae

family of fishes (the herrings, shads, sardines, hilsa and menhadens)
Taxon taxon Q27141
Clupeidae
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Summary

Clupeidae is a taxon[1]. Clupeidae ranks in the top 0.78% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,530 views/month, #1,525 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Clupeiformes[4]
  • Taxon name: Clupeidae[5]
  • Commons category: Clupeidae[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Clupeidae[7]
  • Code of nomenclature: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[8]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[9], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[10], National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[11]
  • This taxon is source of: Clupeidae fish oil[12], salted herring skin[13], salted herring[14], smoked herring[15]
  • Taxon common name: sildefamilien[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]

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Identifiers

Clupeidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 49236[18]. Clupeidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 55118[19]. Clupeidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 6893[20]. Clupeidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7332[21]. Clupeidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 161700[22].

Why It Matters

Clupeidae has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Clupeidae is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Pisces. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [19] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [22] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [20] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [21] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i48977
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 02532146-n
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Code of nomenclature → International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
    Local thumb → —
    Instance of → —
    This taxon is source of → Clupeidae fish oil, salted herring skin, salted herring +1
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 16477, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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