[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Pisces
     Class Osteichthyes Huxley, 1880 - bony fishes see [unranked] Euteleostomi
       Order Clupeiformes Rafinesque, 1810 - herrings
         Family Clupeidae Cuvier, 1817 - herrings, shads, sardines and allies
           Genus Herklotsichthys Whitley, 1951
             1 Herklotsichthys punctatus (Rüppell, 1837) - spotback herring