WoRMS taxon details
Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 126848
AphiaID: 126848
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Echeneidae (Family) > Echeneis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Echeneis Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Echeneis Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Echeneis chiromacer Duméril, 1858 Echeneis fasciata Gronow, 1854 Echeneis fusca Gronow, 1854 Echeneis guaican Poey, 1860 Echeneis lunata Bancroft, 1831 Echeneis metallica Poey, 1860 Echeneis naucratus Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Echeneis neucrates Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Echeneis scaphecrates Duméril, 1858 Echeneis vittata Rüppell, 1838 Echensis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Echneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758 (misspelling) Leptecheneis flaviventris Seale, 1906 Leptecheneis naucrates (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] 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] basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Black Sea [details] Cargados Carajos [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus praetextus Bere, 1936 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Tuxophorus caligodes Wilson C.B., 1908 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (28 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (324 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (48 nucleotides; 33 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Often found free-swimming in shallow inshore waters. Attaches temporarily to a variety of hosts including sharks, rays, large bony fishes or sea turtles, whales, dolphins and also to ships. Sometimes used by natives to aid in fishing: a line is tied to the caudal peduncle of the remora and then is released; upon attaching to another fish, the remora and its host are hauled in by the fisherman (Ref. 9682). [details] Diet: Feeds on small fishes, bits of its host's prey and host's parasites [details] Distribution: circumtropical; Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and Bermuda to Uruguay [details] Habitat: Most abundant remora in warm waters. Occurs near as well as far from the coast. Often found free-swimming in shallow inshore areas and around coral reefs. Attaches temporarily to a variety of hosts including sharks, rays, large bony fishes or sea turtles, whales, dolphins and also to ships. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126848 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758. 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=126848 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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