Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Osteichthyes (class)
10. Actinopterygii (subclass)
11. Clupeiformes (order)
12. Clupeidae (family)

Anotations

Scope note:

Members of a genus containing 15 species of small, oily, small-headed, streamlined, variously colored fish, some with silvery iridescent sides and metallic deep-blue backs, living in shallow temperate waters of the North Atlantic, the North Pacific, the Baltic Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea.