WoRMS taxon details
Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 126853
AphiaID: 126853
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Remora Gill, 1862 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Remora Gill, 1862 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Echeneis borboniensis Guichenot, 1863 Echeneis bourboniensis Duméril, 1858 Echeneis nubifera Tanaka, 1915 Echeneis parva Gronow, 1854 Echeneis postica Poey, 1860 Echeneis remeligo Guichenot, 1863 Echeneis remeligo Duméril, 1858 Echeneis remiligo Guichenot, 1863 (misspelling) Echeneis remora Linnaeus, 1758 Echeneis remoroides Bleeker, 1855 Echeneis squalipeta Daldorff, 1793 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: 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 page(s): 260 [details] additional source: Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37 (look up in IMIS) page(s): 260 [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] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Comores [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] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Lepeophtheirus crassus (Bere, 1936) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pennella filosa (Linnaeus, 1758) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Margolisius abditus Benz, Kabata & Bullard, 2000 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (136 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Usually associated with sharks but also attaches itself to other large fishes, sea turtles and even ships. Sometimes free-swimming (Ref. 2850). [details] Diet: Feeds on parasitic copepods [details] Distribution: cosmopolitan in warm seas, occasionally straying into the western North Atlantic north of Cape Cod to St. Pierre Bank off Nova Scotia in association with host species; Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Argentina [details] Habitat: usually associated with sharks but also attaches itself to other large fishes, sea turtles and even ships; sometimes free-swimming [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126853 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Remora remora (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=126853 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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