CaRMS taxon details
Echeneidae AphiaID: 125533
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Family |
| Parent | | Perciformes |
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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]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
English |
remoras |
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Norwegian Bokmål |
sugefiskfamilien |
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Norwegian Nynorsk |
sugefiskfamilien |
[details] |
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Direct child
taxa
[show all] | | Genus Echeneis Linnaeus, 1758
Genus Remora Gill, 1862
Genus Remorina Jordan & Evermann, 1896 accepted as Remora Gill, 1862
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| Environment | | marine |
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| 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]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125533 |
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| | | Citation: CaRMS (2013). Echeneidae. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2013) Canadian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125533 on 2013-05-23 |
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