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Click on image to enlarge. © Copyright Photographer/SFTEP, 2002 · 0 Remora albescens 2 thumbnails  •  slide show español Overview Main identification features use genus Moderately elongate; sucking disc on head medium length, reaches almost to tips of pectorals, with 13-14 rows of plates; pectoral broad, rounded 18-21 rays; dorsal short, base < head length, 17-22 rays; anal base ~head length, 21-26 rays; tail bluntly straight (forked in juvenile); pelvics small, blunt, joined to belly by membrane. Uniform pale grey to white. Size: 35 cm. Habitat: hosts are manta rays, sharks and marlin. Depth: 0-50 m?. Circumtropical; throughout our region except for the upper Gulf of California. Attributes Abundance: Common. Cites: Not listed. Climate Zone: North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California); Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo); South Temperate (Peruvian Province ). Depth Range Max: 50 m. Depth Range Min: 0 m. Diet: Pelagic crustacea; bony fishes; zooplankton; ectoparasites; pelagic fish larvae; pelagic fish eggs. Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=38; Southern limit=-20; Western limit=-123; Eastern limit=-70; Latitudinal range=58; Longitudinal range=53. Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva. Feeding Group: Carnivore; Ectoparasite cleaner. FishBase Habitat: Pelagic. Global Endemism: Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans); East Pacific + Atlantic (East +/or West); Transisthmian (East Pacific + Atlantic of Central America); East Pacific + all Atlantic (East+West); TEP non-endemic; "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific); All species. Habitat: Large fishes (billfishes, rays, sharks, etc), turtles & whales; Water column. Inshore Offshore: Offshore; Offshore Only. IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed. Length Max: 35 cm. Regional Endemism: Island (s); Continent; Continent + Island (s); Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; All species. Residency: Resident. Salinity: Marine; Marine Only. Water Column Position: Mid Water; Near Surface; Water column only; Links to other sites Fishbase Catalog of Fishes Integrated Taxonomic Information System References Breder, C.M. Jr., 1936., Scientific results of the second oceanographic expedition of the "Pawnee" 1926. Heterosomata to Pediculati from Panama to Lower California., Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collect. Yale Univ., 2(3):1-56. Briggs, J.C., 1960., Fishes of worldwide (circumtropical) distribution., Copeia, 1960:171-180. Béarez, P., 1996., Lista de los Peces Marinos del Ecuador Continental., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44:731-741. Eschmeyer , W. N. , Herald , E. S. and Hamman, H., 1983., A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Peterson Field Guide Ser. 28., Houghton Mifflin:336pp. Findley, L.T., Hendrickx, M.E., Brusca, R.C., van der Heiden, A.M., Hastings, P.A., Torre, J., 2003., Diversidad de la Macrofauna Marina del Golfo de California, Mexico., CD-ROM versión 1.0. Projecto de la Macrofauna del Golfo .  Derechos reservados de los autores y Conservación Internacional. Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen II. Vertebrados - Parte 1., FAO2:647-1200. Fowler, H.W., 1944., Results of the Fifth George Vanderbilt Expedition (1941) (Bahamas, Caribbean sea, Panama, Galapagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific Islands). The Fishes., Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel., Monographs, 6:57-529. Galván-Magaña, F., Gutiérrez-Sánchez, F., Abitia-Cárdenas, L.A., Rodríguez-Romero, J., 2000., The distribution and affinities of the shore fishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Eds. M. Manuwar, S.G. Lawrence, I.F. Manuwar & D.F. Malley. Ecovision World Monograph Series., Backhuys Publishers:383-398. Hildebrand, S.F., 1946., A descriptive catalog of the shore fishes of Peru., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 189:1-530. Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2. Lopez , M. I. and Bussing, W. A., 1982., Lista provisional de los peces marinos de la Costa Rica., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 30(1):5-26. Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp. Meek , S.E. and Hildebrand, S.F., 1928., The marine fishes of Panama. Part III., Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. Publ., XV:709-1045. Temminck , C. J. and Schlegel, H., 1850., Pisces. In: Fauna Japonica, sive descriptio animalium quae in itinere per Japoniam suscepto annis 1823-30 collegit, notis observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit P. F. de Siebold., Pisces, Fauna Japonica, (Last part):270-324. Van der Heiden , A. M. and Findley, L. T., 1988., Lista de los peces marinos del sur de Sinaloa, México., Anales del Centro de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia de la Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico, 15:209-224. Acknowledgements Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page. Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation go to Discover Life's Facebook group Following modified from Australian Faunal Directory    Top | See original &pull 20q v5.145 20180528: Error 301 Moved Permanently http://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/f0c4a0a7-2b50-4cb4-aae8-62e523d3aecf/ Following modified from FishBase    Top | See original http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Remora&speciesname=albescens ---> http://52.67.158.155/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Remora&speciesname=albescens http://52.67.158.155/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Remora&speciesname=albescens ---> https://fishbase.net.br/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Remora&speciesname=albescens https://fishbase.net.br/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Remora&speciesname=albescens ---> https://fishbase.net.br/summary/Remora-albescens.html You can sponsor this page Common name (e.g. trout) contains begins with begins with ends with is Genus + Species (e.g. Gadus morhua) About this page More Info Plus d'info Mais info Languages Arabic Bahasa/Malay Bangla Chinese(Si) Chinese(Tr) Deutsch English Español Farsi Français Greek Hindi Italiano Japanese Lao Nederlands Português(Br) Português(Pt) Russian Swedish Thai Vietnamese User feedbacks Comments &   Corrections Fish Forum Guest Book Facebook Citation Uploads Attach website Upload photo Upload video Upload   references Fish Watcher Related species Species in    Remora Species in    Echeneidae - Classification - Echeneidae Carangiformes Teleostei Chordata Animalia Remora albescens ( Temminck & Schlegel , 1850 ) White suckerfish Add your observation in Fish Watcher Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050 This map was computer-generated and has not yet been reviewed. Remora albescens   AquaMaps   Data sources: GBIF OBIS Upload your photos  and  videos Pictures | Google image Remora albescens Picture by Walter, T. Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes( genus , species ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa Teleostei (teleosts) > Carangiformes (Jacks) > Echeneidae (Remoras) Etymology: Remora: Latin, remora = delay, hindrance (1567) (Ref. 45335 ) . More on authors: Temminck & Schlegel . Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology Marine; pelagic-oceanic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243 ); depth range ? - 200 m (Ref. 86942 ). Subtropical Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri Worldwide in warm seas. Western Indian Ocean: including Reunion and Mauritius (Ref. 33390 ). Eastern Pacific: off San Francisco in California, USA to Chile, but rare north of Baja California in Mexico. Western Atlantic: Florida in USA and Gulf of Mexico to Brazil (Ref. 7251 ). Eastern Central Atlantic: St. Paul's Rocks (Ref. 13121 ). Size / Weight / Age Maturity: L m   ?   range ? - ? cm Max length : 30.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5288 ) Short description Morphology | Morphometrics Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 17-22; Anal spines : 0; Anal soft rays : 21 - 26. Pale grey to white in color. Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic) Host specific on manta rays, but occasionally attaches to sharks. Often occurs inside gill chamber and mouth of host. Also attaches itself to black marlin, Makaira indica , of the Indo-Pacific Region (Ref. 7251 ). Rarely free-swimming (Ref. 10791 ). Used in Chinese medicine (Ref. 12166 ). Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators Gray, K.N., J.R. McDowell, B.B. Collette and J.E. Graves , 2009. A molecular phylogeny of the remoras and their relatives. Bull. Mar. Sci. 84(2):183-198. (Ref. 86676 ) IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435 )   Least Concern (LC)  ; Date assessed: 01 July 2010 CITES Not Evaluated CMS (Ref. 116361 ) Not Evaluated Threat to humans   Harmless Human uses FAO - Publication: search | FishSource | More information Countries FAO areas Ecosystems Occurrences Introductions Stocks Ecology Diet Food items Food consumption Ration Common names Synonyms Metabolism Predators Ecotoxicology Reproduction Maturity Spawning Spawning aggregation Fecundity Eggs Egg development Age/Size Growth Length-weight Length-length Length-frequencies Morphometrics Morphology Larvae Larval dynamics Recruitment Abundance BRUVS References Aquaculture Aquaculture profile Strains Genetics Electrophoreses Heritability Diseases Processing Nutrients Mass conversion Collaborators Pictures Stamps, Coins Misc. 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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 0.5352   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00263 (0.00112 - 0.00620), b=3.17 (2.96 - 3.38), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  3.4   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives Resilience (Ref. 120179 ):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Assuming Fec < 10,000). Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Low to moderate vulnerability (27 of 100). Comments & Corrections Back to Search Random Species Back to Top Accessed through: Not available FishBase mirror site : Laguna, Philippines Page last modified by : mrius-barile Updated: 2024-04-24 22:18:50 gmt TaiBIF | Search | All Living Things | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation