Plate 68. Close-up of the sucking disk of a remora just after it had been removed from a mako shark. 

 Note the serrated edges of the cartilaginous ridges or laminae. The remora attaches itself to a large 

 fish by a slight raising of the ridges creating a series of vacuum chambers between itself and the fish. 



Plate 69. Congo eel or ocean pout easily identified by big lips, high eyes and conical teetl 



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