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Spearfish remora
Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839)
Also calledKurokoban (jpn) · Peje Piloto (spa) · Rémora Blanc des Marlins (fra) · Rémora Gris (spa) · Rémora de Merlín (spa) · Rémora des Espadons (fra) · Rémora des espadons, Rémora blanc des marlins (fra) · Rêmora-gelo (por) · Sapito Blanco (spa) · Tardanaves (spa) · peshku me ventuzë të murrmë (sqi) · pez pega robusto (spa) · rémora brun (fra) · rémora robusta (spa)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Spearfish Remora. To 50 cm (19.7 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); San Diego County (32 ° 52 ’ N, 117 ° 17 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), southern California to Chile (Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California (Galván-Magaña et al. 1996), and 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
vernacular_names
– Spearfish remora; Pegador ① ② ③, Agarrador ②, Chupasangue 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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Every page naming Remora brachyptera in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2375292.