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> Carangiformes (Jacks) > Echeneidae (Remoras)
Etymology: Remora: Latin, remora = delay, hindrance (1567) (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Temminck & Schlegel.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / distribuzione batimetrica / distribution range Ecologia

marino pelagic-oceanic; oceanodromo (Ref. 51243); distribuzione batimetrica ? - 200 m (Ref. 86942). Subtropical

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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 / Peso / Age

Maturità: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 30.0 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 5288)

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Spine dorsali (totale) : 0; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 17 - 22; Spine anali: 0; Raggi anali molli: 21 - 26. Pale grey to white in color.
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.

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 Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

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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: Version 2024-2)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 01 July 2010

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Preferred temperature (Fonte Biblio. 123201): 16.7 - 28.2, mean 25.7 °C (based on 1829 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Fonte Biblio. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5352 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00257 (0.00110 - 0.00600), 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 (Fonte Biblio. 69278): 3.4 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179): Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (Assuming Fec < 10,000).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low to moderate vulnerability (27 of 100). 🛈

Remora albescens (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)