ECHENEIS. REMORA. 



Generic Character. 



Caput nudum, clypeo ovato 

 piano transversimsulcato. 



Membr. branch, radiis sex. 

 Corpus nudum. 



Head furnished above witb 

 a flat, ovate, transversly 

 sulcated shield. 



Gill-membrane six-rayed. 



Body without scales. 



MEDITERRANEAN REMORA, 



Echeneis Remora. E.fusca, siriis capitis octodecim, cauda suh* 

 furcata. 



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



subfurcated tail. 

 Echeneis Remora. E. cauda bifurca, striis capitis 18. Lin, 



Syst. Nat. p. 44o\ 

 Remora Imperati & Aldrovandi. Will. p. HQ. 

 Echeneis pinna caudali semihanata. Block, pi. 172. 



TYlE 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 



