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Catalog of Fishes
W.N. Eschmeyer
California Academy of Sciences
Revised version of June 2007
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Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) FishBase
Order: Perciformes
Family: Echeneidae
Genus:
Remora       Gender: feminine CAS GEN No: 232
Author: Catesby , 1771 p.: 26 CAS REF No: 774
Type:      
 
Comments: Not available, published in a rejected work on Official Index (Opinion 89, Opinion 259).
Etymology: Latin, remora = delay, hindrance (1567) (Ref. 45335).
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Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) FishBase
Order: Perciformes
Family: Echeneidae
Genus:
Remora       Gender: feminine CAS GEN No: 3069
Author: Gill , 1862 p.: 239 CAS REF No: 1664
Type: Echeneis remora       Linnaeus , 1758
  Type by original designation (name in parentheses in key).
Comments: On Official List (Opinion 242); *Remora* Goüan 1770:183 and *Remora* Forster 1771:20 placed on Official Index. Valid as *Remora* Gill 1862 -- (Lachner 1973:638 [ref. 7221], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:222 [ref. 6441], Lachner in Whitehead et al. 1986:1331 [ref. 13677], Heemstra 1986:663 [ref. 5660], Paxton et al. 1989:572 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:580 [ref. 22532], Lindberg et al. 1997:25 [ref. 23547], Collette 1999:2653 [ref. 24785], O'Toole 2002:616 [ref. 26411], Collette 2003:1415 [ref. 27087], Parin 2003:S5 [ref. 28536], Paxton et al. 2006:1136 [ref. 28994]).
Etymology: Latin, remora = delay, hindrance (1567) (Ref. 45335).
Current Genus: Remora Gill 1862       Show current species
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