Remora
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(rm´r), any of the several species of warmwater fishes of the family Echeneidae, characterized by an oval sucking disk on the top of the head.
REMORA
Remora (family Echeinidae) are small fish that live on and around sharks. They eat stray bits of food left by the shark and tiny shrimp-like parasites that live on the shark's skin.
Remoras hitch piggyback rides on sharks and hang on with suctions cup discs on their heads. Remoras keep the shark's skin free of parasites and in return get to eat bits of leftover food.
Remoras Echeneidae
Sea louse Caligus oculicola
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It stayed with us for a while, as remoras stayed with it. Also large, a swordfish was seen closely. Its huge fins were above the water. Sometimes that big fish comes to the surface after some doing some fishing of its own in the deep.
basses, groupers, soapfishes, dottybacks, basslets, roundheads, jawfishes, grunters, flagtails, sunfishes, freshwater basses, perches, darters, bigeyes, cardinalfishes, sillagos, tilefishes, false trevallies, gnomefishes, bluefishes, cobias, remoras, ...
Small fish called remoras often travel attached to these giants, feeding on food scraps along the way. Giant mantas are ovoviviparous, so the eggs develop and hatch inside the mother.
Several fish species, including wrasse and remora, share symbiotic relationships with manta rays, ridding the ray of parasites, dead skin and fallen food and sometimes hitching a ride in the process.
Common green turtle (Chelonia mydas) swimming on ground with remora fish on its back. Indo Pacific Ocean
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Another theory is that the spinning may be related to the removal of parasites or of remoras, a fish species that a type of fish with a modified dorsal fin used to attach itself by suction to marine life for the removal of parasites.
rounded dorsal fin and long, paddle-like pectoral fins-all of which have white tips, giving this species its common name. Oceanic whitetips are found in the open ocean, generally far from land. In the wild, this shark is often accompanied by remoras, ...
Despite their decided isolation from others of the same species, they may be observed with pilot fishes, dolphin fishes, and remoras. In 1988 Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch reported seeing the species accompanied by a shortfin pilot whale.
They are often found with Remoras attached to their undersides. These scavenger fish feed from the mantas leftovers. It is also common to find manta rays at "cleaning station" where fish like the wrasse will groom them.
 See also: Shark, Whale, Diver, Crustacean, Dolphin
  
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