Clupeiformes is the order of Actinopterygii that includes the herring family, Clupeidae, and the anchovy family, Engraulidae and Sardine. The group includes many of the most important Forage fish and food fish.
Clupeiformes are , which means that their gas bladder has a pneumatic duct connecting it to the gut. They typically lack a lateral line, but still have the eyes, Fish fin and Fish scale that are common to most fish, though not all fish have these attributes. They are generally silvery fish with streamlined, spindle-shaped bodies, and they often school. Most species eat plankton which they filter from the water with their .
The former order of Isospondyli was subsumed mostly by Clupeiformes, but some isospondylous fishes (isospondyls) were assigned to Osteoglossiformes, Salmoniformes, Cetomimiformes, etc.
Their sister group were the extinct Ellimmichthyiformes, which were dominant throughout much of the Cretaceous and into the Paleogene,
Several fossil clupeiforms are known from the Early Cretaceous of South America that appear to be more closely allied with Clupeioidei over the Denticle herring. This suggests a very deep divergence within the crown group Clupeiformes that must have occurred during the Early Cretaceous or before.
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