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Live sharksucker
Echeneis naucrates
قيده طيقه طلقه
- Maximum length
- 110 cm
- Depth range
- 1–85 m
- Maximum weight
- 2.3 kg
- Maximum age
- —
- Common length
- 66 cm
- Recorded length
- 54.7 cm
Book page 92
Synonyms
- Echeneis chiromacer Duméril, 1858
- Echeneis fasciata Gronow, 1854
- Echeneis fusca Gronow, 1854
- Echeneis guaican Poey, 1860
- Echeneis lunata Bancroft, 1831
- Echeneis metallica Poey, 1860
- Echeneis naucratus Linnaeus, 1758
- Echeneis neucrates Linnaeus, 1758
- Echeneis scaphecrates Duméril, 1858
- Echeneis vittata Rüppell, 1838
- Echensis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758
- Echneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758
- Leptecheneis flaviventris Seale, 1906
- Leptecheneis naucrates (Linnaeus, 1758)
Description
Most abundant remora in warm waters. Occurs near as well as far from the coast. Often found free-swimming in shallow inshore areas and around coral reefs. Attaches temporarily to a variety of hosts including sharks, rays, large bony fishes or sea turtles, whales, dolphins and also to ships. May follow divers; reported to attach itself to a diver's leg. Feeds on small fishes, bits of its host's prey and host's parasites. Juveniles occasionally act as reef station-based cleaners, where they service parrotfishes. Sometimes used by natives to aid in fishing; a line is tied to the caudal peduncle of the remora and then is released; upon attaching to another fish, the remora and its host are hauled in by the fisher.
Source: FishBase (fb-21.06), Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Editors. Licensed CC BY-NC.
Species in the same family
LC
Remoras
Remora remora
قملة القرش أم مشط قيدة
- Maximum length
- 86.4 cm
- Depth range
- 0–200 m
- Habitat
- Coral reef