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Shark sucker
Remora remora
Linnaeus, 1758قملة القرش أم مشط قيدة
- Maximum length
- 86.4 cm
- Depth range
- 0–200 m
- Maximum weight
- 1.07 kg
- Maximum age
- —
- Common length
- 40 cm
- Recorded length
- 72.9 cm
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Synonyms
- Echeneis borboniensis Guichenot, 1863
- Echeneis bourboniensis Duméril, 1858
- Echeneis nubifera Tanaka, 1915
- Echeneis parva Gronow, 1854
- Echeneis postica Poey, 1860
- Echeneis remeligo Duméril, 1858
- Echeneis remiligo Guichenot, 1863
- Echeneis remora Linnaeus, 1758
- Echeneis remoroides Bleeker, 1855
- Echeneis squalipeta Daldorff, 1793
Description
Usually associated with sharks but also attaches itself to other large fishes, sea turtles and even ships; found in gill chambers, fins and body surface. Sometimes free-swimming. Younger individual is more active as parasite pickers. Feeds on parasitic copepods.
Source: FishBase (fb-21.06), Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Editors. Licensed CC BY-NC.
Season
Habitats
Species in the same family
LC
Remoras
Echeneis naucrates
قيده طيقه طلقه
- Maximum length
- 110 cm
- Depth range
- 1–85 m
- Habitat
- Coral reef