280 ECHENEID^. 



SUBBRACHIAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. ECHENEIDX. 



THE COMMON REMORA. 



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

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



,, ,, ,, ('i VIKR, Regne An. t. ii. p. 347. 



,, ,, Mediterranean Rtmora, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. App. 



p. 524. 

 ,, ,, Common Remora, JENYNS, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 473, sp. 162. 



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. 



DK. 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 de- 

 scribed. They are immediately recognized by the flattened, 



