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Echeneis naucrates - remoras found attached to sharks

remora, suckerfish, sucking fish - marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects

Echeneis, genus Echeneis - type genus of the Echeneididae: typical remoras

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Echeneis lineata = Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus: Sharksucker; p.

The plates in holbrook's ichthyology of south carolina, 1860

This dolphin is commonly found to be associated with the humpback whale in the Abrolhos Bank, where it captures fish associated with the whales, such as the sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates, Wedekin et al., 2004).

Cetacean records along a coastal-offshore gradient in the Vitoria-Trindade Chain, western South Atlantic Ocean/Registros de cetaceos ao longo de um gradiente costeiro-pelagico na Cadeia Vitoria-Trindade, Oceano Atlantico Sul ocidental

Acropomatidae Synagrops bellus * 1 (45) Echeneidae Echeneis naucrates * Remora osteochir * 1 (26) Coryphaenidae Coryphaena equiselis * 2 (26-32) 18 (28-68) Coryphaena hippurus 99 (26-262) 22 (32-178) Carangidae Alectis ciliaris Caranx bartholomaei 3 (20-61) 1 Caranxcrysos 1646 (11-82) 91 (12-65) 96 (11-61) Caranx lugubris * 3 (21-29) Caranx ruber 57 (16-89) 2 (31-68) Caranx sp.

Fishes associated with pelagic Sargassum and open water lacking Sargassum in the Gulf Stream off North Carolina

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