WoRMS taxon details
Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839)
AphiaID: 126851
AphiaID: 126851
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Echeneidae (Family) > Remora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Remora Gill, 1862 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Echeneis brachyptera Lowe, 1839 Echeneis nieuhofii Bleeker, 1853 Echeneis pallida Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 Echeneis quatuordecimlaminatus Storer, 1839 Echeneis sexdecimlamellata Eydoux & Gervais, 1837 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [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] additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details] additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [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] 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, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Reunion [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (52 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Found on the body and inside gill chamber of billfishes and swordfishes, rarely on any other fishes (Ref. 2850). [details] Distribution: Worldwide in warm seas; Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Brazil [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Habitat: Found on the body and inside gill chamber of billfishes and swordfishes, rarely on any other fishes. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126851 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839). 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=126851 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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