270 MALACOPTERYGII, — ECHENEIDID^. 
Mediterranean; a specimen of which was taken 
by Dr. Turton from the back of a Cod at Swan- 
sea, in the year 1806. The coronal disk in this 
REMORA. 
species contains about eighteen pairs of plates ; 
the fins are leathery, the caudal forked. The 
body is of a dusky hue, darker on the upper 
parts and paler below. 
The natives of Hispaniola and Jamaica are 
described by the early Spanish writers as in the 
habit of using a species of this genus in fishing. 
The fisherman, carrying the Remora out in his 
canoe, attached around its tail a slender line of 
great length, and threw it overboard. The in- 
stinct of the Remora impelled it to fasten on any 
fish that chanced to swim by, when the owner 
hauling upon the line, gradually drew in both 
fishes, the hold of the sucker pertinaciously re- 
taining the prey in spite of all its efforts to 
escape. From some observations of our own on 
the habits of a large West Indian species, we are 
inclined to believe this account, though we do 
not know that the device is at present employed. 
At Mozambique, an oriental species is said to be 
used in exactly the same manner for the capture 
of Turtle sleeping at the surface. 
