Echeneis (fish)

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Echeneis
Temporal range: Miocene – Recent [1]
Echeneis naucrates.jpg
E. naucrates, showing suction disc
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Suborder: Carangoidei
Family: Echeneidae
Genus: Echeneis
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Leptecheneis lunata
Linnaeus, 1758 [2]
Synonyms [3]
  • Leptecheneis Gill, 1864

Echeneis is a genus of fish in the family Echeneidae, the remoras. The genus is distributed in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. [4]

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The generic name Echeneis comes from the Greek echein meaning "to hold" and naus meaning "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

The currently recognized species in this genus are: [4]

Fossil species

References

  1. 1 2 P. G. Daniltshenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78: pp. 171-172.
  2. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Echeneis". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  3. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Echeneidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  4. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Echeneis". FishBase . August 2019 version.
  5. ↑ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 August 2019). "Order CARANGIFORMES (Jacks)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 November 2019.


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