Natura - nature
   actualia - actual entities
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
       naturalia - natural bodies
         [crown] Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
           Clade neomura Cavalier-Smith, 1987
             Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925 - eukaryotes
               Clade discaria Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                 Clade dorsates Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                   Clade podiates Cavalier-Smith, 2012
                     [crown] Clade Amorphea Adl et al. 2012 [Simpson, Medina & Adl 2020]
                       [crown] Clade Obazoa Brown, Sharpe, Silberman, Heiss, Lang, Simpson & Roger 2013
                         [crown] Clade Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith 1987 [Simpson & Medina 2020] - animal-fungal clade
                           Superkingdom Holozoa Lang, O'Kelly, Nerad, Gray & Burger, 2002
                             Clade filozoa Shalchian-Tabrizi, Minge, Espelund, Orr, Ruden, Jakobsen & Cavalier-Smith, 2008
                               Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
                                 Clade Planulozoa Wallberg, Thollesson, Farris & Jondelius 2004
                                   Subkingdom Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians
                                     Clade Nephrozoa Jondelius, Ruiz-Trillo, Baguñà & Riutort 2002
                                       Infrakingdom Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908
                                         Phylum Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates
                                           Subphylum Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates
                                             Myopterygii - myopterygians
                                               Superclass Gnathostomata Gegenbaur, 1874 - jawed vertebrates
                                                 Grade Teleostomi Bonaparte, 1836
                                                   Euteleostomi - bony vertebrates
                                                     Class Actinopterygii Woodward, 1891 - ray-finned fishes
                                                       [crown] Actinopteri Cope, 1871
                                                         Subclass Neopterygii Regan, 1923
                                                           Infraclass Teleostei Müller, 1845
                                                             Supercohort Teleocephala de Pinna, 1996
                                                               Clupeocephala
                                                                 Cohort Otomorpha E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010
                                                                   Subcohort Clupei E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010
                                                                     [crown] Order Clupeiformesᵀ Rafinesque, 1810 - herrings
                                                                       Suborder Clupeoideiᵀ Rafinesque, 1810
                                                                         Family †Erythrinolepidae [monotypic]
                                                                         0.2.0 [Family Bathythrissidae] see Family Pterothrissidae Gill, 1893
                                                                         1 ?Genus †Nolfia Taverne, 1976
                                                                         2 Family Pristigastridae
                                                                         2.0 [Family Pristigasteridae] see Family Pristigastridae
                                                                         3 Family Engraulididae Gill, 1861, nom. emend.
                                                                         3.0 [Family Engraulidae Gill, 1861 - anchovies] see Family Engraulididae Gill, 1861, nom. emend.
                                                                         4.1 Family Chirocentridae Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1846 - wolf herrings
                                                                         4.2 Family Clupeidaeᵀ Cuvier, 1817 - herrings, shads, sardines and allies
                                                                         4.2.1 [Family Dussumieriidae] see Subfamily Dussumieriinae
                                                                         4.2.2.0 [Family Congothrissidae] see Subfamily Pellonulinae
                                                                         4.2.5 [Family Dorosomidae] see Subfamily Dorosomatinae
                                                                         n.1.2 [Family Ancylostylidae [monotypic]]
                                                                         n.2.2 [Family †Notogoneidae] see Family Gonorynchidae