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Shark sucker
Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758)
Also calledAlmindelig sugefisk (dan) · Buwahhal (mlt) · Dvalfiskur (isl) · Gemeiner Schiffshalter (deu) · Nagakoban (jpn) · Peixe-agarrador (por) · Peixe-pegador (por) · Peixe-pegajoso (por) · Peixe-piolho (por) · Peixe-sapato (por) · Peshk venduze (sqi) · Pilote (fra) · Pixxitmun (mlt) · Prilep (slv)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas (including western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Red Sea). Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 23 August 2012); Med. (LC: 16 November 2007). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Rare. Low priority for conservation action.
The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status
description
Remora. To 86.4 cm (34 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); in eastern Pacific from Washington (Hughes 1985) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including central and southern Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic; depth: surface to 300 m (984 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2015; max.: Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Remora remora (Linnaeus 1758) remora (Linnaeus 1758
Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758) Remora remora: Ben-Tuvia, 1953a; Ben-Tuvia, 1971a; Spanier et al., 1989a; Spanier et al., 1989b; Golani, 1996b; Golani, 2005. CARANGIDAE
An updated Checklist of the Mediterranean fishes of Israel, with illustrations of recently recorded species and delineation of Lessepsian migrants
vernacular_names
– Sharksucker; Pegador ①, Rémora ① ② ③, Agarrador ②, Pegador ② ③
Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Remora remora in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2375267.