Remoras

Echeneidae

Sharksuckers

Classification
Ostéichthyen Perciformes Echeneidae Remora Echeneis
8 espèces

Classification

Ostéichthyen

Perciformes

Echeneidae

Remora
Echeneis

8 espèces

Références web
fishbase fr.wikipedia fishesofaustralia	auxbulles en.wikipedia everything

Références web

fishbase

auxbulles

Schéma
worldwide (sauf Antarctiq) in temperate to tropical waters elongate body avec un trait très distinctif, sur tout le long du corps, et une queue en éventail head flattened and bearing a sucking disc with nb transverse movable lamina (disc said to have evolved from a spinous dorsal fin) mâchoire inférieure plus longue que la mâchoire supérieure spines absent in dorsal and anal fins no swim bladder with its sucking disc hitches to larger animals such as sharks, bony fishes, turtles or mammals (or ships & !divers!) act as cleaners on ther hosts and also feed on 'leftovers' probably pelagic spawners, nonguarder
Identification key to remoras

Schéma

worldwide (sauf Antarctiq) in temperate to tropical waters
elongate body avec un trait très distinctif, sur tout le long du corps, et une queue en éventail
head flattened and bearing a sucking disc with nb transverse movable lamina (disc said to have evolved from a spinous dorsal fin)
mâchoire inférieure plus longue que la mâchoire supérieure
spines absent in dorsal and anal fins
no swim bladder
with its sucking disc hitches to larger animals such as sharks, bony fishes, turtles or mammals (or ships & !divers!)
act as cleaners on ther hosts and also feed on 'leftovers'
probably pelagic spawners, nonguarder

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Identification key to remoras

Etymologies		Source
Echeneidae	Greek, echein = to hold + Greek, nays = ship	fishbase
remora	latin [remora] = retard, obstacle, celui qui retarde ou qui arrête	doris
remora	Latin, remora = delay, hindrance	fishbase



Remora australis
fishbase / doris / en.wiki / fishesofaustralia / nomadica	Synonymes Rémora des cétacés / Whalesucker / Indian Suckerfish	Bennett, 1840 / LC / ITIS 168569

2013 Karachi harbour (Pakistan) by HAMID BADAR OSMANY (via fishbase)		2009 Karachi harbour (Pakistan) by HAMID BADAR OSMANY (via fishbase)


2003 Mexico ©Robert Pitman (via fishbase)	2009 Karachi (Pakistan) by Hamid Badar Osmany (via fishbase)	2013 Karachi (Pakistan) by HAMID BADAR OSMANY (via fishbase)
worldwide	Remora des baleines	(sub)tropical
dark blue to slate grey; fins with narrow white edge
<50m / 76cm	dioecism, fécondation externe	oceanic, mostly in warm seas, attaches itself only to whales, dolphins & porpoises (marsouin)
Remora australis




Remora remora
fishbase / souslesmers / en.wiki / fishesofaustralia / nomadica	Synonymes Shark sucker	Linnaeus, 1758 / LC / ITIS 168571

on a manta ray, Shorefishes of the Neotropics ©Clay Bryce (via fishesofaustralia)	2016 Yucatan ©Richard Wasson (via INaturalist)	2015 Sainte Hélène ©Rafael de la Parra (via INaturalist)


2008 by NOAA (via Wikimedia Commons)	2019 Lima by ALDO BALDEON HERNANDEZ (via fishbase)	sur Chelonia mydas, 2016 Mayotte ©Frédéric Ducarme (via Wikimedia Commons)
circumtropical	Remora des requins	subtropical
dark brownish grey in color; deeper-bodied than Echeneis naucrates
0-100m / 40-86cm / 1.07kg	dioecism, fécondation externe, openwater, nonguarder	usually associated with sharks but also attaches itself to other large fishes, sea turtles and even ships, pelagique et associé, solitaire ou ptt grp, se font transporter par un hôte bien que bons nageurs
Remora remora

Echeneis naucrates
fishbase / souslesmers / ADW / AustralianMuseum / doris / fishesofaustralia / nomadica	Synonymes Live sharksucker / Rémora rayé	Linnaeus, 1758 / LC / ITIS 168575

2012 Hurghada (Egypt) ©mda (via GooglePhotos)	2012 Hurghada (Egypt) ©mda (via GooglePhotos)	2012 Hurghada (Egypt) ©mda (via GooglePhotos)


2012 Hurghada (Egypt) ©mda (via INaturalist)		2009 Bali ©mda (via INaturalist)


2017 Soudan ©mda (via INaturalist)	2012 Bunaken (Sulawesi) ©mda (via INaturalist)	2012 Hurghada (Egypt) ©mda (via INaturalist)


2012 Hurghada (Egypt) ©mda (via INaturalist)	2012 Bunaken (Sulawesi) ©mda (via INaturalist)	2015 Maldives ©mda (via GooglePhotos)


Male Atoll (Maldives) ©Trevor Meyer (via fishbase)	2010 Marsa Alam (Egypt) by Gianemilio Rusconi (via fishbase)	2010 Marsa Alam (Egypt) by Gianemilio Rusconi (via fishbase)


2005 Queensland by Richard Ling (via Wikimedia Commons)	1995 Sipadan Island (Sabah/Borneo) ©Randall, John E. (via fishbase)


2006 NSW (Au) by Sascha Schulz (via Encyclopedia of Life)	2015 Florida by James Bailey (via Encyclopedia of Life)	Fiji by Richard Ling (via fishesofaustralia)


2015 NSW (Au) by Ian Shaw (via Encyclopedia of Life)	2005 Tubbataha (Philippines) ©Simon Hefti (via Wikimedia Commons)	2006 Osprey Reef (NE-Au) by Richard Ling (via Wikimedia Commons)


2017 NSW (Au) by craighendo (via Encyclopedia of Life)	2016 Cancun by Rafael de la Parra (via Encyclopedia of Life)	2014 Palau by Mark Rosenstein (via Encyclopedia of Life)
circumtropical	Remora fuselé	(sub)tropical
slender with an oval-shaped sucking disc; broad dark mid-lateral stripe bordered with narrow white stripes above and below, but large individuals may be entirely grey; pectoral fins pointed; juveniles with upper and lower margins of fins white
20-50m / 66cm (jsq 110cm) / 2.3kg video / video	dioecism, fécondation externe, openwater, nonguarder	pelagique et associé, solitaire; se font transporter par un hôte bien que bons nageurs, associée aux requins, tortues, gds poissons, mammifères marins ou boats! can also be free-swimming around coral reefs
Echeneis naucrates

MàJ 14/03/2023