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clupeid

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Definitions

  1. any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas

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  • The open water expanses of the lake have been occupied mainly by two species of clupeids, as well as by Eutropius niloticus and Physailia pellucida.
  • In the pelagic zone of Lake Tanganyika, the endemic clupeids are planktivores which migrate surfacewards at night (cf. marine clupeids, p. 227).
  • Although most marine fishes studied thus far cannot detect sound frequencies above about 500 Hz, at least some clupeids can detect considerably higher frequencies.

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