COMMON REMORA. 



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SUBBRACHIAL 

 MALACOPTERYG1I. 



ECHENEWsE. 



THE COMMON REMORA. 



Echeneis remora, Sucking-jish , TURTON, Brit. Faun. p. 94, sp. 38. 

 ,, ,, Le Remora, BLOCK, pt. v. pi. 172. 



,, ,, ,, CUVIEH, Regne An. t. ii. p. 347. 



,, ,, Mediterranean Remora, PENN. Brit. Zool.vol. iii. App. p. 5'24. 



Common ,, JENYNS, Man. Bril. Vert. p. 473, 



sp. 162. 



ECHENEIS. Generic Characters. Body elongated, covered with very small 

 scales ; a single dorsal fin placed opposite the anal ; the head very flat, covered 

 with an oval disk formed by numerous transverse cartilaginous plates, the 

 edges of which are directed backward ; the mouth wide, with numerous small 

 recurved teeth on both jaws, the tongue, and the vomer. 



DR. TURTON in his British Fauna includes this species 

 of Sucking-fish, having taken a specimen himself at Swansea 

 from the back of a Codfish in the summer of 1806. 



The species of this singular family are not numerous : 

 Cuvier enumerates but four that are as yet made known, and 

 another large West Indian one has been more recently 



