MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Remora Gill, 1862

WoRMS taxon details

Remora Gill, 1862

AphiaID

125964 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125964)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758)

Parent

Echeneidae Rafinesque, 1810

Synonymised names

Remilegia Gill, 1862 · unaccepted

Remora (Remorina) Jordan & Evermann, 1896 · unaccepted (synonym)

Remorina Jordan & Evermann, 1896 · unaccepted (synonym)

Remoropsis Gill, 1863 · unaccepted

Rhombochirus Gill, 1863 · unaccepted

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Species Remora albescens (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)
Species Remora australis (Bennett, 1840)
Species Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839)
Species Remora osteochir (Cuvier, 1829)
Species Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subgenus Remora (Remorina) Jordan & Evermann, 1896 accepted as Remora Gill, 1862 (synonym)
Species Remora australia (Bennett, 1840) accepted as Remora australis (Bennett, 1840) (misspelling)
Species Remora scutata (Günther, 1860) accepted as Remora australis (Bennett, 1840)
Species Remora pallida (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) accepted as Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) (uncertain > unassessed)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Remora Gill, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125964 on 2025-04-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Other

context source (PeRMS) Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. 2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao. 314 p. [details]

additional source Gill, T.N. (1862). Remarks on the relations of the genera and other groups of Cuban fishes. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 14: 235-242.
page(s): 239 [details]

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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Language	Name
Japanese	ナガコバン属シロコバン属 [from synonym]	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Remorina Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
To Catalog of Fishes (from synonym Remora (Remorina) Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Remora)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Remorina) (from synonym Remorina Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
To Genbank (from synonym Remorina Jordan & Evermann, 1896)
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To ITIS