Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Echeneidae > Remora > Remora remora

Remora remora (Suck fish; Stout sucking fish; Stout suckerfish; Short suckerfish; Shark-sucker; Shark sucker; Shark pilot; Remora; Common sucker; Common remora; Brown sucker; Brown remora; Rémora)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The common remora, Remora remora, is a pelagic marine fish belonging to family Echeneidae. R. remora is different from other remoras in the family Echeneidae by the modification of its dorsal fin. The dorsal fin, which has 22 to 26 soft rays, acts as a suction cup, creating a vacuum to allow it to attach to larger marine animals, such as whales, dolphins, sharks, and sea turtles.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  

Prey / Diet

Candacia pachydactyla[1]
Scolecithrix danae[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Selar crumenophthalmus (Steenbrass)2

Predators

Onychoprion fuscatus (Sooty Tern)[2]
Thunnus albacares (Yellowfin-tuna)[2]

Providers

Parasite of 
Prionace glauca (Tribon blou)[3]

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0