remora
Noun
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Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects (synset 102577541)
is a type of: acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rayssubtypes:
- echeneis naucrates, sharksucker - remoras found attached to sharks
- remilegia australis, whale sucker, whalesucker - large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins
belongs to: echeneididae, family echeneidae, family echeneididae - fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to shipssame as: suckerfish, sucking fish
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