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名詞

clupeid (複数形 clupeids)

1. Any of many soft-finned fish of the family Clupeidae.
   • 1973, Willis A. Evans, John Vanderpuye, Early Development of Fish Populations and Fisheries of Volta Lake, William C. Ackermann, Gilbert F. White, E. B. Worthington (editors), Man-Made Lakes: Their Problems and Environmental Effects, page 117,

     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.

   • 1987, R. H. Lowe-McConnell, Ecological Studies in Tropical Fish Communities‎^[1], page 90:

     In the pelagic zone of Lake Tanganyika, the endemic clupeids are planktivores which migrate surfacewards at night (cf. marine clupeids, p. 227).