Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus 1758
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Echeneidae
- genus
- Echeneis
- species
- Echeneis naucrates
description
Sharksucker. To 110 cm (43.3 in) TL (Lieske and Myers 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Sea of Japan, off northern Hokkaido, possibly as far north as southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); southern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic; marine and brackish waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface to 135 m (443 ft) (min.: Gasparini and Floeter 2001; max: 128 – 135 m in McLean et al. (2018); 135 m from Diane McLean, pers. comm. to M. L.)
Name
- Homonyms
- Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus 1758