Biology:Echeneis (fish)
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Echeneis Temporal range: Miocene – Recent[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Family: | Echeneidae |
| Genus: | Echeneis Linnaeus, 1758 |
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| Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758[2]
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=121.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Echeneis in FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ↑ "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
- "Echeneis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=168574.
- Echeneis at Zipcodezoo.com
Wikidata ☰ Q2709145 entry
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