SUCKING-FISH. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
A flat oval shield transversely rayed on the top of the head. 
Body without scales. 
Gill membrane six-rayed. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Echeneis Remora. E. cauda bifurca striis capitis 18. Linn. 
Syst. Nat. Gmel. I. p. 1187- 
Tail forked ■, about eighteen bars on the 
head. 
Echenei s pinna caudali semilunata. Bloch, 
pi. 172. 
Scuking-Fish. . Will. Ichth. p. lip. App. p. 5. t. 9 . 
f. 2. Catesh. Carol. 2. pi. 2 6 . Shaiv 
Gen. Zool. 4. p. 201. pi. 31. 
These fish are enabled, by means of their singular 
formation, to adhere with the utmost tenacity to 
other bodies. They are frequently found attached 
to the side of sharks, insomuch that five of them 
have been taken from the body of one of those ani- 
mals. This extraordinary faculty did not pass un- 
