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Remora australis
Description
Remora australis (Bennett, 1840).
Whalesucker. To 76.2 cm (30 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; British Columbia (Gillespie 1993) to Chile (Miller and Lea 1972), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic; depth: surface to 200 m (656 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Echeneidae
- Genus
- Remora
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bennett
- Species
- australis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Remora australis (Bennett, 1840) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Gillespie, G. E. (1993) An updated list of the fishes of British Columbia, and those of interest in adjacent waters, with numeric code designations. Canadian Technical Report Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 1918.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.