Echeneis (fish) explained

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

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.^[1]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:

• Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758  - live sharksucker
• Echeneis neucratoides Zuiew, 1789  - whitefin sharksucker

Fossil species

• †Echeneis urupensis Daniltshenko, 1958 (Miocene of Russia)^[2]

External links

• • Echeneis at Zipcodezoo.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Order CARANGIFORMES (Jacks) . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . 10 August 2019 . 16 November 2019 . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.
2. P. G. Daniltshenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78: pp. 171-172.