Sharksucker
Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758
Also calledArrête-nef (fra) · Gestreifter Schiffshalter (deu) · Grand rémora (fra) · Grand rémora, Rémora (fra) · Haaisuier (afr) · Hajsugfisk (swe) · Kobanzame (jpn) · Pegador (spa) · Pegador-listado (por) · Pegatimon (spa) · Pegatimón (spa) · Pilote (fra) · Pixxi tmun (mlt) · Platkop (afr)
First described in: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
materials_examined
Aegean Sea: 13100 - 248 (1 spc.), 15.06.1968, Sigacik Bay, M. Demir. Mediterranean Sea: 13100 - 790 (1 spc.), October 2002, Iskenderun Bay, trawl, C. Dalyan.
A catalogue of the fishes held in the Istanbul University, Science Faculty, Hydrobiology Museum.
distribution
Distribution. Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of California). Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 23 August 2012); Med. (NE). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Common. Low priority for conservation action.
The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status
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.)
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
description
(Heb.); Stern, 2010; Edelist et al., 2011 a (Fish.); Levitt, 2012; Frid, 2015 (Fish.); Goren, et al., 2016.
An updated Checklist of the Mediterranean fishes of Israel, with illustrations of recently recorded species and delineation of Lessepsian migrants
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Every page naming Echeneis naucrates in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2375300.