Whalesucker
Remora australis (Bennett, 1840)
Also calledOkoban (jpn) · Pegaballena (spa) · Remora (spa) · Rémora de Ballena (spa) · Rémora des Baleines (fra) · Rémora des Cétacés (fra) · Rémora des baleines, Rémora des cétacés (fra) · Rêmora-baleeira (por) · kitov prilep (slv) · klavuz baligi (tur) · rémora austral (fra) · rémora ballenera (spa) · valasremora (fin) · vantuz (tur)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Whalesucker. To 76.2 cm (30 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; British Columbia (Gillespie 1993) to Chile (Miller and Lea 1972), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic; depth: surface to 200 m (656 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Remora australis (Bennett 1840)
Remora australis (Bennett, 1840) Remilegia australis: Ben-Tuvia, 1971a . Remora australis: Golani, 1996; Golani, 2005.
An updated Checklist of the Mediterranean fishes of Israel, with illustrations of recently recorded species and delineation of Lessepsian migrants
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2375286.