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Echeneidae
spearfish remora
Remora brachyptera
Head sucker attached to billfish
- Cross-climate
- Temperate
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Elongated
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Cross-climate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
MediumThe spearfish remora (Remora brachyptera) is a species of remora with a worldwide distribution in tropical and subtropical seas. Remoras attach themselves to other fish with a sucker on the head and this fish is almost exclusively found living on billfishes or swordfishes, and sometimes on sharks.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Echeneidae
- Genus
- Remora
- Maximum length
- 50 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
