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one fourth of the total, and equal to twice the width of the 

 body between the pectorals. The number of laminae is 20 or 21, 

 and they are far apart. The radial formula, D. XX or XXI-32 

 to 35; A. 33 to 35. 



The color is the same as in the sharksucker. This species 

 ranges from Cape Cod to the West Indies. It is common on our 

 south Atlantic coast. An individual was recorded by Prof. 

 Baird at Woods Hole Mass, in 1871, and a number of specimens 

 were taken during the next 10 years. According to Dr Smith, 

 however, it has not recently been collected there. 



Genus REMORA Gill 



Body rather robust, the vertebrae 12+15=27; disk shortish, of 

 13 to 18 laminae; pectoral rounded, its rays soft and flexible; 

 soft dorsal and anal moderate, of 20 to 30 rays; caudal subtrun- 

 cate. Species attaching themselves to large fishes, specially to 



sharks. 



341 Remora remora (Linnaeus) 



Remora 



Eclieneis remora LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. X, I, 2&0, 1758; MITCH ILL, Trans. 



Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 378, 1815; DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 309, 



1842; GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 378, 1860; JORDAN & GILBERT, 



Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 417, 1883. 



Remora jacobaea GOODE & BEAN, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 21, 1879. 

 tiemora remora JORDAN & EVERMANN, Check-List Fish. N. A. 490, 1896; 



H. M. SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, Iu6, 1898; JORDAN & EVERMANN, 



Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2271, 1898. 



Body and tail comparatively robust, the latter compressed. 

 The length of the body is four times the length of the head, two 

 and three fourths times the length of the disk and five and one 

 fourth times the width between pectorals. Pectoral fin rounded, 

 short, and broad, the rays soft and flexible; ventral fins adnate 

 to the abdomen for more than half the length of their inner edge. 

 Tip of lower jaw not produced into a flap. Vertebrae 12+15. 

 Head broad and depressed; disk longer than the dorsal or anal 

 fin; maxillary scarcely reaching front of orbit; caudal lunate; 

 vertical fins rather high; pectoral three fifths length of head. D. 

 XVIII-23; A. 25. 



Uniform dark brown. Warm seas, north to New York and 



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San Francisco; usually found attached to large sharks. 



