Remoras or Sharksucker (Naucrates Echeneis)

Remoras is the members of Echeneidae family , remoras or sharksuckers are thin fish that have flat sucker disck on their head. 

Often see remoras sucking sharks and other fish such as marlin, grouper, and the rays, but sometimes bottom boats or other objects. These hitchhikers easy to drive with their hosts, parasitic copepods that feed on hosts can be found in the bodies and chambers Gill.

Remoras

Remoras Fish Developed in the first dorsal fin sucking disc includes a series of ridges and spaces will create a gap between the obstacle and the surface to which it attaches. Pushing back, remora can increase the suction, or it can be prevented from swimming forward.

Remoras sucking shark

Remoras or sharksucker (naucrates Echeneis), which represents on average 11 / 2 feet in length, but can be up to 38 inches long and can weigh up to 2 pounds, is the largest member of the family. Remoras worldwide distribution in warm seas, it is gray, with broad white-edged black stripe on each side, sloping to tail. He prefers the sharks and rays and Breakfast and often enter shallow beach and coastal areas and is known in rare cases, focusing on swimmers or divers.

Also has a cosmopolitan remora (Remora remora), which is common to 12 cm in length and can reach a length of 34 inches. It is a dark brown or black and is also all over the world. This, too, favors the host Sharks. Some other species show a clear preference host. Whalesucker (A. australis), for example, is generally fixed Whale remora Spearfish (brachyptera R.), generally regarded as billfish such as marlin.