Remora remora (Linnaeus 1758) remora (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
- Remora
- species
- Remora remora
description
Remora. To 86.4 cm (34 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); in eastern Pacific from Washington (Hughes 1985) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including central and southern Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic; depth: surface to 300 m (984 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2015; max.: Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018).