Remora
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| Remora | |
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| Common remora, Remora remora | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Family: | Echeneidae Rafinesque, 1810[1] |
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Echeneididae | |
Remoras, sometimes called suckerfish or sharksuckers, are fish in the family Echeneidae of ray-finned fish in the order Carangiformes.[3] They are small fish that live on and around sharks. They eat stray bits of food left by the shark and tiny shrimp-like parasites that live on the shark's skin. They have sucker-like disks on their heads with which they attach to the shark. Both the shark and the remora benefit from the pairing, but the remore benefits much more; this is commensalism. Remora are also known as sucker fish or shark sucker.
Remora Media
Fossil specimen of Opisthomyzon
Some remoras, such as this Echeneis naucrates, may attach themselves to scuba divers.
References
- ↑ Richard van der Laan. Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa 3882 (2) (2014). p. 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1.
- ↑ Genera in the family Echeneidae. Catalog of FishesCalifornia Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ↑ J. S. Nelson. Fishes of the World (2016)Wiley. p. 384. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Retrieved 2023-01-23.