Echeneis (fish)

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

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]

Fossil species

References

  1. ^ a b 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". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  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.
  4. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Echeneis". FishBase. August 2019 version.
  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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