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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyEcheneidae
  5. ›genusRemora
Remora albescens
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IUCN LC · Least concern

White Suckerfish

Remora albescens (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)

Also calledAgarrador (por) · Mantasugfisk (swe) · Pegador (por) · Rémora (por) · Rémora blanc (fra) · Rémora des mantas (fra) · Rêmora (por) · Rêmora-manteiga (por) · Shirokoban (jpn) · Weißer Schiffshalter (deu) · rémora blanca (spa) · štítonoš bělavý (ces) · Белая рыба-прилипало (rus) · Реморина (rus)

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

description

White Suckerfish. To 35 cm (13.8 in) TL (Lachner and Post in Quéro et al. 1990). Circumglobal; San Francisco, northern California to Chile, including central and southern Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic; depth: 0 to about 50 m (164 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2008).

Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

vernacular_names

– White suckerfish; ①, Agarrador, Rémora ②, Pegador ② ③, Chupa-sangue ③

Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2375253.