Echeneis (fish)

Echeneis is a genus of fish in the family Echeneidae, the remoras. The genus is distributed in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.[4]

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
Family: Echeneidae
Genus: Echeneis
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Echeneis naucrates
Linnaeus, 1758[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Leptecheneis Gill, 1864

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

  • Echeneis urupensis Daniltshenko, 1958 (Miocene of Russia)[1]

References

  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". 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. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Echeneis in 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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