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The pectoral fin has about nineteen coarse rays ; the anal fin has one 

 hundred and three distinguishable rays ; and the dorsal one hundred 

 and twenty-five ; beside the caudal expansion, where the rays are con- 

 fused, and not easy to be counted. With the before-mentioned excep- 

 tion of a (ew stiff and sharp rays where the dorsal fin is interrupted, 

 all the fins and processes are soft. 



Described from nature on the 27th of March, 1815. 



Order, thoracic 



ECHENEIS. REMORA. 



Generic character. 



Head furnished above with a flat ovate, transversely sulcated shield. 

 Gill membrane six rayed. Body without scales. 



1. Big Oceanic Sucker. (Echeneis neucrates.) With olive brown 

 back, dirty white belly, intermingled with green, and twenty-four bars 

 across the shield above the head. 



The living specimen which I examined fresh from the water, on the 

 8th of July, 1814 was in length thirty-one inches, in girth ten inches 

 and a half ; and weighed four pounds and eleven ounces. 



Lower jaw jutted considerably beyond the upper ; and the upper 

 side of its point was rough, with short and small teeth, which could 

 never come into contact with those in front of the upper jaw. 



Figure of the shield above the head elliptical, rather inclined to 

 oval ; its longer diameter six inches and a half; its shorter two and 



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