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Echeneis naucrates
Pegador Pe`ga*dor", n. [Sp., a sticker.] (Zo["o]l.) A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.

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- An echeneis (Ancient Gr****: ἐχενηΐς) is a legendary creature; a small fish that was said to latch on to ships, holding them back. Pliny the Elder (1st...
- the Early Oligocene is the earliest true remora in the fossil record, Echeneis carpathica from Poland. From later in the Oligocene, the extinct genus...
- The live sharksucker or slender sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates) is a species of marine fish in the family Echeneidae, the remoras. The species is considered...
- Echeneis is a genus of fish in the family Echeneidae, the remoras. The genus is distributed in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. The generic name...
- The whitefin sharksucker (Echeneis neucratoides) or short-disk sharksucker, is a species of remora native to subtropical waters of the western Atlantic...
- Springer-Verlag, 1986. p. 662 Fertl, D.; Landry, A. M. (1999). "Sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates) on a Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops tTruncatus) and a Review of...
- 8 km/h (0.50 mph). The dusky shark is one of the hosts of the sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates). Known parasites of this species include the tapeworms Anthobothrium...
- (Menzies, 1791) Synonyms Echeneis lineata Menzies, 1791 Echeneis tropica Euphrasén, 1791 Echeneis apicalis Poey, 1860 Echeneis sphyraenarum Poey, 1860...
- Synonyms Echeneis brachyptera R. T. Lowe, 1839 Echeneis ****decimlamellata Eydoux & Gervais, 1837 Echeneis quatuordecimlaminatus D. H. Storer, 1839 Echeneis pallida...
- Synonyms Echeneis albescens Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 Remorina albescens (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) Echeneis clypeata Günther, 1860 Echeneis lophioides...