Echeneis Neucrates. Round-tailed Remora. Jaws (lender, 
the lower longeft: fhield divided down the middle, and cut tranf- 
verfally by 24 furrows ; body very long, (lender, and round: a few 
of the fide rays of the tail of an equal length: the reft gradually 
increafe in length, and make the middle round. D. 37. P. 21. 
V. 5. A. 37. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean; and confequently fhould be ra¬ 
ther the Echeneis of Pliny, &c. than the Fork-tailed Remora y which 
authors in general make it. 
I find among the fynonyma of this fpecies, a reference to one 
figured in Petiver’s works, Vol. I. Tab. XLIV. Fig. 12. which 
if faithfully copied from nature, differs fpecifically from it. Among 
other characters, which might be produced, to prove it a diftinft 
fpecies, is that particularly of its not having the partition down the 
middle of the fhield. 
