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  2. Common remora - Wikipedia

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    The common remora (Remora remora) is a pelagic marine fish [3] belonging to the family Echeneidae. The dorsal fin, which has 22 to 26 soft rays, acts as a suction cup , creating a vacuum [ 4 ] to allow the fish to attach to larger marine animals, such as whales, dolphins, sharks, and sea turtles.

  3. Remora - Wikipedia

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    The sucking disc begins to show when the young fish are about 1 cm (0.4 in) long. When the remora reaches about 3 cm (1.2 in), the disc is fully formed and the remora can then attach to other animals. The remora's lower jaw projects beyond the upper, and the animal lacks a swim bladder. [9] Some remoras associate with specific host species.

  4. Marlin sucker - Wikipedia

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    The marlin sucker or spear-fish remora (Remora osteochir) is a species of remora found all over the world in tropical and temperate seas. It can reach up to 40 cm (16 in) in standard length. It normally lives attached to a larger fish; its host preference is for marlins (as the name implies) and sailfishes, but it will attach to other large fish.

  5. White suckerfish - Wikipedia

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    The white suckerfish can reach 30 cm (12 in) in standard length. The adhesive disk is short and wide, the length 34-40% and the width 22-26% of the standard length, with 13-14 lamellae. The pelvic fins are placed far forward and narrowly attached to the abdomen; the dorsal, anal, and pectoral fins are short with reduced rays. The dorsal fin ...

  6. Whalesucker - Wikipedia

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    One of the whalesucker's most outstanding traits, shared among the Echeinedae family, is an adhesive disk. The adhesive disk is a round, oval, sucking disk located on the top of a remora's head, with two layers of lamellae that allow for the remora to stick and unstick to the epidermal surfaces of larger fish, mainly cetaceans.

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  8. Spearfish remora - Wikipedia

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    The spearfish remora attaches itself with its disc to a host fish, with juveniles often attaching in the gill chambers. [1] Host fish include the sailfish, the white marlin, the black marlin, the striped marlin and the swordfish; all these fish swim faster than does the remora, and it is not clear how the remora attaches to the host in the first place. [5]

  9. Whale shark ‘dances’ with fish in mesmerising spectacle off ...

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    A whale shark “danced” with an entourage of tiny remora fish off the coast of Thailand in resurfaced footage from 30 May. A mesmerising underwater spectacle shows the world’s biggest fish ...