WoRMS taxon details
Echeneidae
AphiaID: 125533
AphiaID: 125533
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Perciformes | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Echeneis Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Phtheirichthys Gill, 1862 Genus Remora Gill, 1862 Genus Echensis accepted as Echeneis Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Echneis accepted as Echeneis Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Leptecheneis accepted as Echeneis Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Phthierichthys accepted as Phtheirichthys Gill, 1862 Genus Remilegia accepted as Remora Gill, 1862 Genus Remorina Jordan & Evermann, 1896 accepted as Remora Gill, 1862 Genus Rhombochirus accepted as Remora Gill, 1862 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Distribution: Atlantic, Indian and Pacific. Elongate body, with the head flattened and bearing a sucking disc having 10-28 transverse movable lamina (disc said to have evolved from a spinous dorsal fin). Mandible jutted. Scales small and cycloid. Spines absent in dorsal and anal fins. About 18-40 soft rays each in dorsal and anal fins. No swim bladder. Branchiostegal rays 8-11. With the sucking disc, the remora hitches to larger animals such as sharks, bony fishes, turtles or mammals. Some species reportedly show considerable host specificity. About 1 m maximum length (reported for Echeines naucrates); the smallest species measuring 17 cm. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125533 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Echeneidae. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125533 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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