Echeneis (fish)
Echeneis is a genus of fish in the family Echeneidae, the remoras. The genus is distributed in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.[3]
| Echeneis | |
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| E. naucrates, showing suction disc | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Family: | Echeneidae |
| Genus: | Echeneis Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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The generic name Echeneis comes from the Greek echein meaning "to hold" and naus meaning "ship", a reference to the ability of these fish to attach themselves to the hulls of vessels and, in legend, to slow them down.[4]
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[3]
- Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758 – live sharksucker
- Echeneis neucratoides Zuiew, 1789 – whitefin sharksucker
References
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Echeneis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Echeneidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Echeneis in FishBase. August 2019 version.
- Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 August 2019). "Order CARANGIFORMES (Jacks)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
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