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WoRMS taxon details

Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758)

To FishBase images (<i>Remora remora</i>, Ecuador, by Béarez, P.)
To FishBase images (Remora remora, Ecuador, by Béarez, P.)

126853  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126853)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
  8. Actinopteri (Superclass)
  9. Teleostei (Class)
  10. Carangiformes (Order)
  11. Echeneidae (Family)
  12. Remora (Genus)
  13. Remora remora (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Echeneis remora Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Description Usually associated with sharks but also attaches itself to other large fishes, sea turtles and even ships. Sometimes...  
Description Usually associated with sharks but also attaches itself to other large fishes, sea turtles and even ships. Sometimes free-swimming (Ref. 2850). [details]

Distribution cosmopolitan in warm seas, occasionally straying into the western North Atlantic north of Cape Cod to St. Pierre Bank off...  
Distribution cosmopolitan in warm seas, occasionally straying into the western North Atlantic north of Cape Cod to St. Pierre Bank off Nova Scotia in association with host species; Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Argentina  [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126853 on 2024-11-22
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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original description (of Echeneis nubifera Tanaka, 1915) Tanaka, S. (1915). Figures and descriptions of the fishes of Japan including the Riukiu Islands, Bonin Islands, Formosa, Kurile Islands, Korea, and southern Sakhalin. Maruzen. <em>Tokyo.</em> v. 20: 343-370, Pls. 96-100. [In Japanese and English.]. [details] 

original description (of Echeneis remora Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Echeneis remoroides Bleeker, 1855) Bleeker, P. (1855). Tweede bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische fauna van de Batoe-eilanden. <em>Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië.</em> v. 9 (no. 1): 65-72. [details] 

original description (of Echeneis squalipeta Daldorff, 1793) Daldorff, D. C. de. (1793). Uddrag af Hr. Daldorfs Dagbog paa en Reise fra Kiøbenhavn til Tranquebar, sidst i Asret 1790 og forst i Aaret 1791. <em>Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet Kiøbenhavn.</em> v. 2 (no. 2): 147-173.
page(s): 157 [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details] 

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

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, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details] 

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details] 

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 260 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. <i>J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A)</i>: 1-37 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 260 [details] 

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2024). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Description Usually associated with sharks but also attaches itself to other large fishes, sea turtles and even ships. Sometimes free-swimming (Ref. 2850). [details]

Diet Feeds on parasitic copepods  [details]

Distribution cosmopolitan in warm seas, occasionally straying into the western North Atlantic north of Cape Cod to St. Pierre Bank off Nova Scotia in association with host species; Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Argentina  [details]

Habitat usually associated with sharks but also attaches itself to other large fishes, sea turtles and even ships; sometimes free-swimming  [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
Albanian peshku me ventuzë  [details]
Danish almindelig sugefisk  [details]
English Short sucker fishshark-suckerShark suckerremoraOffshore remoracommon remoraBrown remora  [details]
Hebrew רמורה רמורה  [details]
Japanese ナガコバン  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Ρεμόρα  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål sugefisk  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk sugefisk  [details]
Russian Обыкновенная рыба-прилипалоакулья ремора  [details]
Spanish rémora tiburonera  [details]
Turkish vantuzklavuz baligi  [details]
To Barcode of Life (20 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Echeneis nubifera Tanaka, 1915)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Echeneis parva Gronow, 1854)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (144 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Echeneis remoroides Bleeker, 1855)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Echeneis squalipeta Daldorff, 1793)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Echeneis remiligo Guichenot, 1863)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (341 publications) (from synonym Echeneis remora Linnaeus, 1758)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Echeneis remeligo Duméril, 1858)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Echeneis remeligo Guichenot, 1863)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Echeneis borboniensis Guichenot, 1863)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Echeneis postica Poey, 1860)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Echeneis remora Linnaeus, 1758)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To Digital Atlas Of Marine Species & Locations, DAMSL (Silvertip shark and Remoras) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Remora remora) 
To FishBase (from synonym Echeneis borboniensis Guichenot, 1863)
To FishBase (from synonym Echeneis bourboniensis Duméril, 1858)
To FishBase (from synonym Echeneis nubifera Tanaka, 1915)
To FishBase (from synonym Echeneis parva Gronow, 1854)
To FishBase 
To FishBase (from synonym Echeneis squalipeta Daldorff, 1793)
To FishBase (from synonym Echeneis remoroides Bleeker, 1855)
To FishBase (from synonym Echeneis remiligo Guichenot, 1863)
To FishBase (from synonym Echeneis remeligo Duméril, 1858)
To FishBase (from synonym Echeneis postica Poey, 1860)
To FishBase (from synonym Echeneis remora Linnaeus, 1758)
To FishBase (from synonym Echeneis remeligo Guichenot, 1863)
To FishBase images (Remora remora, Ecuador, by Béarez, P.) 
To FishSounds 
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 13 proteins) 
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Echeneis remora Linnaeus, 1758)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Remora remora RAD119754-001) 
To PESI 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
To FishBase images (<i>Remora remora</i>, Ecuador, by Béarez, P.)
To FishBase images (Remora remora, Ecuador, by Béarez, P.)
Hosted externally
Unreviewed
To Digital Atlas Of Marine Species & Locations, DAMSL (Silvertip shark and Remoras)
To Digital Atlas Of Marine Species & Locations, DAMSL (Silvertip shark and Remoras)
Hosted externally
To NMNH Extant Collection (Remora remora RAD119754-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Remora remora RAD119754-001)
Hosted externally
To NMNH Extant Collection (Remora remora RAD119754-002)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Remora remora RAD119754-002)
Hosted externally
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