BrackishSaltwater
Live sharksucker
Echeneis naucrates
Echeneidae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 110 cm
- Body shape
- Elongated
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 27,981 liters
- Diet
- Missing
Know what is missing? Suggest it in the app.
Behavior
- Temperament
- Missing
- Swims
- Missing
Know what is missing? Suggest it in the app.
Water values
Smallest tank
Range
Native
Lives wild in Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, and 109 more countries.
More about the species
Description
Most abundant remora in warm waters. Occurs near as well as far from the coast. Often found free-swimming in shallow inshore areas and around coral reefs. Attaches temporarily to a variety of hosts including sharks, rays, large bony fishes or sea turtles, whales, dolphins and also to ships. May follow divers; reported to attach itself to a diver's leg. Feeds on small fishes, bits of its host's prey and host's parasites. Juveniles occasionally act as reef station-based cleaners, where they service parrotfishes. Sometimes used by natives to aid in fishing; a line is tied to the caudal peduncle of the remora and then is released; upon attaching to another fish, the remora and its host are hauled in by the fisher.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Echeneis chiromacer
- Echeneis fasciata
- Echeneis fusca
- Echeneis guaican
- Echeneis lunata
- Echeneis metallica
In other languages
- Huvudsugare, Hajsugfisk
- Stribet sugefisk
- Australian remora, Common remora, Gapu, Live shark-sucker, Remora, Shark remora, Sharksucker, Slender sharksucker, Slender sucker fish, Slender suckerfish, Slender sucking fish, Striped suckerfish, Suckerfish, Sucking fish, White tailed remore, White-tailed remora
Articles
All articles
How to add new fish4 min read
From the store to the tank: how to get the fish used to your water, why you should add only a few at a time, and what to watch for in the first few days.
Quarantine for new fish3 min read
Why new fish should live in a tank of their own for a few weeks before they move in, what you need, and what to look for.
From freshwater to saltwater3 min read
What is different in a saltwater aquarium: salt, refractometer, live rock and corals. An introduction for anyone thinking of giving it a try.