Biology:Echeneis (fish)

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Echeneis
Temporal range: Miocene – Recent[1]
Echeneis naucrates.jpg
E. naucrates, showing suction disc
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Family: Echeneidae
Genus: Echeneis
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Echeneis naucrates
Linnaeus, 1758[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • 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

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]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 P. G. Daniltshenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78: pp. 171-172.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Echeneis". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=121. 
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Echeneidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Echeneidae. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Echeneis in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  5. "Order CARANGIFORMES (Jacks)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 10 August 2019. http://www.etyfish.org/carangiformes/. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2709145 entry