524 APPENDIX. V. 



GENUS *XXVIII. REMORA. (P. 287.) 



Head furnished above with a flat, ovate, trans- 

 versely sulcated shield. 

 Body without scales. 

 Rays branchiostegous, six. 



1, Mediter- Echineis, Plinii lib. ix. c. 15. Le Remore. Block Ichth. t. 



ranean. Belon, 440. IO9. tab. 172. 



Remora. Rondel. 436. Echineis Remora. Gm. Lin. 



RemoralmperatiZuyger. Wil. 1 187- 



Ichth. lig. Art. gen. 15. Syn. 28. 



Raii Syn. Pise. 71. De la Cepede Hist, des Pais- 



sons, iii. 147- 



Descrip- [THE Remora or Sucking fish grows to the 

 length of about eighteen inches. The mouth 

 large, furnished with numerous small teeth; 

 the lower jaw longer than the upper; the 

 eyes small, the hides yellow ; the color of the 

 body an uniform brown ; the skin smooth, but 

 marked with numerous pores. On the head is 

 a singular oval shield, by which the fish ad- 

 heres with great tenacity to any flat surface, 

 and sometimes in considerable numbers to the 

 sides of ships, which gave rise to the fabulous 



