Clupeidæ

Herring family, isospondylous fishes, characterized by an elongate, compre ed body, covered with cycloid Clupeidæ. scales, the head naked. mouth large, teeth feeble, no lateral line, nor adipose fin. Here are included 130 species, among ( C. vernal is ) , which ascends rivers with the shad, from which it differs in smaller size and shorter gill rakers; the Menhaden or Mo bunker ( Brevoortia tyrannus ), of which enormous quantities are caught, the oil extracted and the refuse used for fertilizer stock. The Menhaden run in schools and are taken in large boats especially engaged in this busine . Clupea sap i di ima is the anadromous Shad, of which great numbers are taken every spring in the Atlantic coast rivers. It has also been succe fully introduced on the Pacific coast. C. pilchar dus is the true Sardine.