FB-3545 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3545 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Carangiformes Echeneidae Remora Remora australis (Bennett, 1840) Rêmora Walvis-remora Qamly Hvalsugefisk Walsauger Wal-Schiffshalter Indian suckerfish Whale remora Whalesucker Vaala hoidjakala Rémora des baleines Rémora des cétacés Priljepuša australska Remora Ôkoban Yapışan balık Yapışkan balığı Pegaballena Remora Rémora ballenera Rémora de ballena kitov prilep Kolisopsaro falenon Κολαούζος Κολλησόψαρο Κολλησόψαρο φαλαινών 印度短鮣 澳洲印魚 澳洲印鱼 澳短鮣 Echeneis australis Bennett, 1840 Echeneis scutata Günther, 1860 Remilegia australis (Bennett, 1840) Remora australia (Bennett, 1840) Remora remora (non Linnaeus, 1758) Remora scutata (Günther, 1860) 1991-05-01 2016-06-29 Breder, C.M. and D.E. Rosen0 Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. 941 p. (Ref. 205) Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. 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Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Reaus_u1.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Reaus_u1.gif FB-pic-3545-11974 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/gif FAO 1996-09-19 1997-04-13 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Reaus_u2.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Reaus_u2.gif FB-GeneralDescr-3545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2016-06-29 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Oceanic, mostly in warm seas. Attaches itself only to whales and porpoises (Ref. 7251). One adult couple was recorded attached to the same individual spinner dolphin for a period of about 3 months (Ref. 50801). A common associate of spinner dolphins at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, southeast Atlantic, where it occurs year-round. Recorded feeding on spinner dolphins’ feces and vomits (Ref. 48727). Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley 1989 Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p. (Ref. 7300) FB-DiagnosticDescr-3545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Cristina V. Garilao 1996-09-06 00:00:00 2005-01-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3545 Dark blue to slate grey; fins with narrow white edge (Ref. 4389). Hart, J.L. 1973 Pacific fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 180:740 p. (Ref. 6885) FB-Morphology-3545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Cristina V. Garilao 1996-09-06 00:00:00 2005-01-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology Dorsal spines (total): 25 - 27; Dorsal soft rays (total): 20 - 23; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 20 - 24 Hart, J.L. 1973 Pacific fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 180:740 p. (Ref. 6885) FB-Distribution-3545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-02 00:00:00 2025-10-14 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Worldwide in tropical and warm waters. Western Atlantic: Texas, USA to Brazil. Eastern Pacific: Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada to Chile (Ref. 2850). Mediterranean reports doubtful (Ref. 13729). Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray 1986 A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251) FB-Migration-3545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2016-06-29 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3545 Oceanodromous. Migrating within oceans typically between spawning and different feeding areas, as tunas do. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km. Riede, K. 2004 Global register of migratory species - from global to regional scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Germany. 329 p. (Ref. 51243) FB-Size-3545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2016-06-29 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size 76.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 2850)) Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann 1983 A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Boston (MA, USA): Houghton Mifflin Company. xii+336 p. (Ref. 2850) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-3545 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2016-06-29 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3545 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat pelagic-oceanic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); marine; depth range 1 - 50 m (Ref. 108953) Riede, K. 2004 Global register of migratory species - from global to regional scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Germany. 329 p. (Ref. 51243) Collette, B., W.F. Smith-Vaniz, J. Herrera, P. Fernandes and H. Heessen 2015 <i>Remora australis</i>. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T198650A45095872. (Ref. 108953)