Remora brachyptera (Lowe 1839)
- 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
- Remora
- species
- Remora brachyptera
description
Spearfish Remora. To 50 cm (19.7 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); San Diego County (32 ° 52 ’ N, 117 ° 17 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), southern California to Chile (Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California (Galván-Magaña et al. 1996), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic; depth: surface to 200 m (656 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
Name
- Homonyms
- Remora brachyptera (Lowe 1839)