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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Echeneidae

Remoras

WoRMS 125533ITIS 168567GBIF 8529key worms:125533
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168567 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · John Hlavin · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Phtheirichthys lineatus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Echeneidae
Photo · Nicolas Klemberg · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The remora, sometimes called suckerfish or sharksucker, is any of a family (Echeneidae) of ray-finned fish in the order Carangiformes. Depending on species, they grow to 30–110 cm (12–43 in) long.W CalCOFI holds 6 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1966 and 2003, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

6
observations
6
records
2
sampling events
1966–2003
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 2 obs · 2 events · 1966–2002 · larva
    name used: Echeneidae Remoras · code 1656

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125533%22