108 ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Echeneis remora, Plate XXXIX, fig 2. 



Exe'V'G, Plutarch, Sympos. lib. ii ; Oppian, Halieut. i, p. 9. <&0ap, Aristot. 

 Hist. 



Echeneis, Ovid, Hal. v, 99 ; Pliny, xxii, c. 1, ix, c. 25 ; vElian, i, c. 36, iii, c. 17 ; 

 Wotton, De Differ, p. 149. Remora, Rondel, xv, c. 18, p. 436 ; Petiver, Gazopliyl. 

 t. xliv, f . 12 ; Jonston, de Pise. lib. i, tit. 1, c. ii, art. iv, p. 16, t. iv, f . 3 ; Ray, 

 p. 71. Zuiger, Nieidioff, Brass. Zee-en Lant-Reize, ii, p. 274, f. 67. Remora 

 imperati, Willughby, Appendix, p. 5, t. ix, f. 2. Sucking -fish, Edward's 

 Gleanings, No. 210. Mediterranean Remora, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1812) iii, 

 p. 524. Echeneis, sp. Klein, MSS. iv, p. 51, No. 1 ; Gronov. Zoopli. p. 75, No. 

 256, and Mus. Ich. i, No. 33 ; Duharnel, Peches, ii, Sect. 4, p. 56, pi. iv, f . 5. 



Echeneis remora, Linn. Syst. i, p. 446, and Amcen. Acad, i, p. 320, and Mns. Reg. 

 Ad. Frid. i, p. 75 ; Osbeck, Voy. China, p. 94 ; Schcepff, Schrift. Gesel. Xat. 

 Ereunde Berlin, viii, 3, p. 145 ; Bloch, t. clxxii ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1187 ; Lacep. iii, 

 pp. 146, 147, t. ix, f . 1 ; Bl. Schn. p. 240 ; Blumenb. Abbild, t. lxxviii ; Bonna- 

 terre, p. 57, pi. xxxlii, f. 123; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 201, pi. xxxi ; Risso, Ich. 

 Xice, p. 177, and Eur. Merid. iii, p. 269 ; Mull. Prod. Faun. Dan. Xo. 361 ; 

 Mitch. Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. Xew York, i, p. 378 ; Turton, Brit. Fauna, p. 94 ; 

 Richards. Faun. Bor. Amer. p. 265 ; Faber, Fische Islands, p. 115 ; Temm. and 

 Schlegel, Fauna Japon. Poiss. p. 271 ; De Kay, Xew York Fauna, Fishes, p. 309 ; 

 Bonap. Pesc. Eur. p. 66 ; Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. iii, p. 16 ; Bennett, Whaling 

 Voyage, p. 271 ; Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Fish. p. 142, and Man. Vert. p. 473 ; 

 Thompson, Mag. Xat. Hist. (2) 1846, p. 314, and Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 222 

 Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (Ed. 2) ii, p. 377, c. fig. (Ed. 3) i, p. 671 ; White, Catal. 

 Brit. Fishes, p. 56 ; Giinther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, p. 390, Catal. ii, 

 p. 378, and Fische Gode. Mus. Heft, v, p. 156 ; Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. 

 1864, p. 60; Couch, Journ. Roy. Soc. Corn. 1867, p. 361 ; Kner, Novara Fische, 

 p. 146 ; Bleeker, Madagascar, p. 99 ; Day, Fishes of India, p. 258 ; Moreau, Poiss. 

 France, ii, p. 535, c. fig. 



Echeneis squalipeta, Dald. Nat. Selskab. ii, p. 157; Bl. Schn. p. 240; Giinther, 

 Catal. ii, p. 377 (young). 



Echeneis naucrates, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii, p. 270. 



Echeneis jacobea and pallida, Lowe, Pro. Zoo. Soc. 1839, p, 89, and Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. iii, pp. 16, 17. 



Echeneis remoroides, Bleeker, Batoe, ii, p. 70. 



Echeneis par v a, Gronov. ed Gray, p. 92. 



? Echeneis horboniensis, Guich. in Maillard Reunion, Appen. p. 19. 



Remora, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, ii, p. 113, pi. lxxxviii. 



Remora tropica, Murray, Edinb. New. Phil. Journ. 1856, iv. p. 287. 



B. vii, D. 17-18/22-24. P. 20-24. V. 1/5. A. 22-25. C. 19. Ccec. pyl. 6-8. 

 Vert. 12/15. 



Length of head 4^ to 4^-, including disk 3, of disk alone 3-|-, of caudal fin 6, 

 height of body 7 to 9, of ventrals 7\ to 8J, breadth between pectoral fins 6 to 6^ 

 in the total length. Eye placed in the middle of the length of the head, 3^ to 

 3^ diameters from the end of the snout, and 5 apart. Its direction is downwards, 

 having its upper edge most projecting. Mouth rounded ; lower jaw the longer ; 

 the posterior extremity of the maxilla does not quite reach to beneath the front 

 edge of the eye. Teeth present in a band in either jaw, that on the lower being 

 the wider ; also present on the vomer, palatine bones, and tongue. Fins the disk 

 or modified first dorsal fin is placed on the upper surface of the head and occiput, 

 is nearly half as wide as long, containing from 17 to 18 transverse lamina?, each 

 of which has a rough tooth-like posterior edge, while along its centre runs a 

 narrow smooth elevation enabling the vacuum to be confined to one-half of the 

 disk. The most anterior lamina? are directed slightly forward, the posterior more 

 backward, while the intervening ones have an intermediate direction. External to 

 this disk is a wide fleshy membrane which reaches posteriorly to beyond the 



