388 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
tip; eye 64%; maxillary 3; interorbital space 124; least depth 
of caudal peduncle 6. Body slender, elongate, depressed ante- 
riorly, trunk tapering cylindrically to caudal fin. Head broadly 
depressed or flattened above with an elongate sucking-disk, its 
width 2% in its length. Snout broad, depressed, profile when 
viewed above rounded. Eye circular, midway on side of head 
from tip of snout. Mouth a little oblique and mandible well 
protruded beyond tip of snout. Teeth uniform, rasp-like. Max- 
illary falling about an eye-diameter in advance of orbit. Gill- 
rakers 3 + 9, lanceolate, longest 3 in orbit. Scales minute, so 
that surface of body has a coriaceous appearance. Dorsal inserted 
a little rearer base of caudal than tip of snout, anteriorly elevated 
but without lobe. Anal similar, inserted about opposite. Caudal 
a little convex, with upper and lower edges hardly produced. 
Pectoral half way to vent. Ventral inserted a little posterior to 
origin of pectoral and also half way to vent. Color brownish, 
belly dark like back. Side with a broad stripe of dusky-brown 
from snout to caudal, and edged with whitish. Caudal black, its 
outer angles whitish. Dorsal and anal broadly edged with 
whitish anteriorly. Pectoral and ventral blackish. Length about 
a foot. New Jersey. 
I have many examples of this fish from our coast, where it is 
common at times. They are usually attached to large fishes, such 
as sharks, also large turtles, which they will leave at times if 
tempted with a baited hook. They are also attached without 
regard to species. One was taken at Long Beach. 
Echenets albicauda Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 814. 
Echenets naucrates Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 
360. 
Genus REmoraA Gill. 
The Remoras. 
Remora remora (Linnzus). 
Remora. 
A stout-bodied species with 18 dorsal laminz, and 23 rays in 
the soft dorsal. 
