🦋 Family

Echeneidae

2 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Perciformes › Echeneidae

Echeneis naucrates is a circumtropical medium fish with a head-to-body sucking disc that attaches to larger marine animals and objects.

Echeneis neucratoides (whitefin sharksucker) is a slender remora that attaches to large marine hosts in the western Atlantic.

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Labridae 155 species Pomacentridae 142 species Gobiidae 120 species Serranidae 103 species Blenniidae 86 species Chaetodontidae 82 species Percidae 67 species Carangidae 53 species

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