echeneid

English
A nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) with unidentified echeneids

Noun

echeneid (plural echeneids)

  1. Any fish of the family Echeneidae (the remoras or suckerfish).
    • 2000, T. Trnski, J. M. Leis, 81: Echeneidae (Remoras), Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart (editors), The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 518,
      They are characterized by a unique cephalic sucking disc by which the echeneid attaches itself externally to its host.
    • 2010, Kathleen Sabina Cole, Reproduction and Sexuality in Marine Fishes: Patterns and Processes‎, page 38:
      Postflexion stage, larvae, and juveniles of some echeneids have been illustrated by Richards (2005a).
    • 2015, Hermann Ehrlich, Biological Materials of Marine Origin: Vertebrates‎, page 430:
      With a force applied to their caudal peduncle, the echeneids generated suction pressure differentials averaging –92.7 kPa within the disk cavity while attached to Plexiglas.

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