Echeneis (fish)

Echeneis; Temporal range: Miocene – Recent
	E. naucrates, showing suction disc
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Family:	Echeneidae
Genus:	Echeneis; Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
	Echeneis naucrates; Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
	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]

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[edit]

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

Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758 – live sharksucker
Echeneis neucratoides Zuiew, 1789 – whitefin sharksucker

Fossil species[edit]

†Echeneis urupensis Daniltshenko, 1958 (Miocene of Russia)^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b P. 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. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Echeneis in 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. Retrieved 16 November 2019.

External links[edit]

"Echeneis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Echeneis at Zipcodezoo.com

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[Daniltshenko-1] P. G. Daniltshenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78: pp. 171-172.

[CofF-2] Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Echeneis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 November 2019.

[CofFG-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.

[FishBase-4] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Echeneis in FishBase. August 2019 version.

[ETYFish-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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