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

 Tip of lower jaw not produced into a flap; head broad, depressed; disk 

 longer than the dorsal or the anal fin; maxillary scarcely reaching front 

 of orbit. Caudal lunate; vertical fins rather high; pectoral f length of 

 head. Color blackish, nearly uniform above and below. Length 15 inches. 

 Warm seas, north to New York and San Francisco, where it is not rare ; 

 usually found attached to large sharks ; very common in the West Indies ; 

 more robust than Echeneis naucrates, and reaching a smaller size. 



Echeneis remora, LINN^US, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 260, 1758, " in Pelago Indico ;'' GUNTHER, Cat., 

 11,378,1860; LiJTKEN, Vid. Hedd. Kjobenh. 1875, 38; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 417, 

 1883. 



Echeneis tqualipeta, DALDORF, Skrivt. Naturh. Selsk., n, 1797, 157, Atlantic Ocean between 

 the tropics ; GUNTHER, Cat., II, 377, 1860. 



Echeneis jacobcea, LOWE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1839, 89, Madeira. 



Echeneis remoroides, BLEEKER, Batoe, n, 70, Batoe. 



Echeneis parva, GRONOW, Cat. Fish., Ed. Gray, 92, 1854, no locality ; after E. remora, L. 



Echeneis postica, POEY, Memorias, n, 255, 1861, Havana. (Coll. Poey.) 



Remora jacobcea, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 239. 



Subgenus REMORINA, Jordan & Evermann. 

 2607. BEMOBA ALBESCENS (Temminck & Schlegel). 



Length of disk 3^ to 3 in total length ; width between pectorals 5 to 5 ; 

 number of laminae on disk 13 or 14. D. XIII-22; A. 22. Angle of mouth 

 in the vertical from the third lamina of the disk. Length of ventral fins 

 equal to the distance between root of pectoral and posterior margin of 

 eye. Color uniform grayish brown. (Giinther.) Tropical Pacific, stray- 

 ing to America; a specimen taken at La Paz, Gulf of California (Streets), 

 and 1 in the Gulf of Mexico (13eau). (albescens, whitish.) 



Echeneis albescens, TEMMINCK & SCHLEGEL, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 272, pi. 120, fig. 3, 1842, 



Japan ; GUNTHER, Cat., 11, 377, 1860 ; STREETS, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., vn, 54, 1877. 

 Remora albescens, JORDAN, Cat. Fishes, 66. 1885. 



Subgenus REMOROPSIS, Gill. 

 2608. BEMORA BRACHYPTEBA (Lowe). 



Head nearly 4 ; width between pectorals 6 . D. XIV to XVI-29 to 32 ; 

 A. 25 to 30. Body robust, the greatest depth nearly twice the length of 

 the short pectoral fins; disk shorter than base of dorsal, rather broad; 

 upper jaw angular. Caudal nearly truncate. Light brown, darker below, 

 fins paler. Warm seas, occasionally north to Cape Cod. (fipaxv$, short; 

 Ttrepor, fin.) 



Echeneis brachyptera, LOWE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1839, 89, Madeira; GUNTHER, Cat., 



ii,378, I860; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 417, 1883. 

 Echeneis sexdecimlamellata, EYDOUX & GERVAIS, Voy. Favorite, v, 77, pi. 31, 1839, Indian 



Ocean ? 



Echeneis quatuordecimlaminatus, STORER, Kept. Fishes Mass., 155, 1839, Holmes Hole. 

 Echeneis pallida, TEMMINCK & SCHLEGEL, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 271, pi. 120, fig. 2, 3, 1842, 



Japan. 



Echeneis nieuhofii, BLEEKER, Sumatra, 11, 279, Sumatra. 

 hemoropsis brachypterus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 60. 



