Echeneidae

Wirtz, Peter, Fricke, Ronald & Biscoito, Manuel José, 2008, The coastal fishes of Madeira Island — new records and an annotated check-list, Zootaxa 1715, pp. 1-26 : 12

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.274128

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6230100

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FD1087D9-FFAD-4A5C-FF67-A6AC4A1EFCEF

treatment provided by

Plazi (2016-04-05 02:28:03, last updated 2024-11-29 10:19:09)

scientific name

Echeneidae
status

 

Echeneidae View in CoL View at ENA

* Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758 —Live sharksucker

Recorded from Madeira by Lowe (1849: 17) under the name Echeneis vittata Rüppell, 1838 and by Maul (1956) but not mentioned from the island group by Lachner in Whitehead et al. (1986: 1330). * Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) —Spearfish remora

* Remora osteochir (Cuvier, 1829) —Marlin sucker

Recorded from Madeira by Maul (1956) under the name Rhombochirus osteochir (Cuvier) but not mentioned for Madeira by Lachner in Whitehead et al. (1986: 1332-1333). * Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758) —Common remora

* Remorina albescens (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)—White suckerfish

Lowe, R. T. (1849) Supplement to A synopsis of the fishes of Madeira. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 3, 1 - 20.

Maul, G. E. (1956) Monografia dos peixes do Museu Municipal do Funchal. Ordem Discocephali. Boletim Museu Municipal Funchal, 9 (23), 1 - 23.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Echeneidae

Genus

Echeneis