family Echeneididae

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

family Echeneididae - fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships Echeneididae, family Echeneidae fish family - any of various families of fish Discocephali, order Discocephali - small order of fishes comprising the remoras 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 genus Remilegia, Remilegia - a genus of Echeneididae