ECHENEIS. REMORA. 



Generic Character. 



Caput nudum, clypeo ovato 

 piano transversim sulcato. 



Membr. branch, radiis sex. 

 Corpus nudum. 



Head furnislied above with 

 a flat, ovate, trans versly 

 sulcated shield. 



Gill-membrane six-rayed 1 . 



Body without scales. 



MEDITERRANEAN REMORA. 



Echeneis Remora. E.fusca, striis capitis octodecim, cauda sub" 



furcata. 

 Brown Remora, with about eighteen bars on the shield, and 



subfurcated tail. 

 Echeneis Remora. E. cauda bifurca, striis capitis IS. IJn. 



Syst. Nat. p. 446. 



Remora Imperati & Aldrovandi. Witt. p. 11 0.. 

 Echeneis pinna caudali semilunata. Block, pi. 172. 



A HE extraordinary faculty which this fish pos- 

 sesses of adhering at pleasure with the utmost 

 tenacity to any moderately flat surface, was not 

 unobserved by the ancients, and is described in 

 terms of considerable luxuriance by Pliny in 

 particular, who, giving way to the popular pre- 

 judices of his time, represents the Remora as 



