Echeneisis agenusof fish in the familyEcheneidae,the remoras. The genus is distributed in theAtlantic,PacificandIndian Oceans.[4]
| Echeneis | |
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| E. naucrates,showing suction disc | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Carangoidei |
| Family: | Echeneidae |
| Genus: | Echeneis Linnaeus,1758 |
| Type species | |
| Leptecheneis lunata Linnaeus, 1758[2]
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| Synonyms[3] | |
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The generic nameEcheneiscomes from theGreekecheinmeaning "to hold" andnausmeaning "ship", a reference to the ability of these fish to attach themselves to the hulls of vessels and, in legend, to slow them down.[5]
Species
editThe currently recognized species in this genus are:[4]
- Echeneis naucratesLinnaeus,1758– live sharksucker
- Echeneis neucratoidesZuiew,1789– whitefin sharksucker
Fossil species
edit- †Echeneis urupensisDaniltshenko, 1958(Mioceneof Russia)[1]
References
edit- ^abP. G. Daniltshenko. 1960.Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus.Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78: pp. 171-172.
- ^Eschmeyer, William N.;Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.)."Echeneis".Catalog of Fishes.California Academy of Sciences.Retrieved16 November2019.
- ^Eschmeyer, William N.;Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.)."Genera in the family Echeneidae".Catalog of Fishes.California Academy of Sciences.Retrieved16 November2019.
- ^abFroese, Rainer;Pauly, Daniel (eds.)."Species in genusEcheneis".FishBase.August 2019 version.
- ^Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 August 2019)."Order CARANGIFORMES (Jacks)".The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database.Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.Retrieved16 November2019.
External links
edit- "Echeneis".Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Echeneisat Zipcodezoo
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