- clupeid fish, clupeid - any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
--1 is a kind of soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
--1 is a member of Clupeidae, family Clupeidae
--1 has particulars:shad; alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus; menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannis; herring, Clupea harangus; sardine; pilchard, sardine, Sardina pilchardus