Remora
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 | |
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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 | |
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.