Echeneis (fish)

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

Echeneis Temporal range: Miocene – Recent[1]
E. naucrates, showing suction disc
Scientific classification
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

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]

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

Fossil species

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