Remora

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Perciformes
Subordo: Percoidei
Superfamilia: Percoidea

Familia: Echeneidae
Genus: Remora
Species: R. australis – R. brachyptera – R. osteochir – R. remora
Name

Remora Gill, 1862

Remora australis

References

Remora – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Remora species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

Remora is a genus of remoras native to temperate to tropical marine waters worldwide.
Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[3]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Remora albescens (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)	white suckerfish	western Indian Ocean including Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Chile (but is rare north of Baja California), and in the western and eastern central Atlantic Ocean from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil and St. Paul's Rocks.
	Remora australis (F. D. Bennett, 1840)	whalesucker	Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean, it occurs from Texas to Brazil, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean, it occurs from Vancouver Island to Chile.
	Remora brachyptera (R. T. Lowe, 1839)	spearfish remora	worldwide distribution in tropical and subtropical seas
	Remora osteochir (G. Cuvier, 1829)	marlin sucker	worldwide distribution in tropical and subtropical seas
	Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758)	common remora or shark sucker	western Mediterranean and the Atlantic, as well as the North Sea

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Remora". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Echeneidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Remora in FishBase. April 2013 version.