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Sucker Fish (Spearfish Remora) Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) Rare Occurrence in Mumbai Waters

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Title Sucker Fish (Spearfish Remora) Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839)
Rare Occurrence in Mumbai Waters
 
Creator Das, Thakur
Sundaram, Sujit
 
Subject Rare occurrence
Cat fishes
 
Description Sucker fishes generally attach (themselves to many different marine vertebrates including sharks, rays, tarpons, barracudas, sailfishes, marlins, swordfishes, jacks, basses, groupers, ocean sunfish, sea turtles, whales and dolphins. The Family Echeneidae to which sucker fishes belong is divisible into two subfamilies, four genera and eight species, seven of which occur in the Western Indian Ocean (Fischer and
Bianchi, 1984).
 
Publisher Fishing Chimes Office, Visakhapatnam
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16722/1/Fishing%20Chimes_2009_Sujit%20Sundaram_Vol%2029%20%2810%29.pdf
Das, Thakur and Sundaram, Sujit (2010) Sucker Fish (Spearfish Remora) Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) Rare Occurrence in Mumbai Waters. Fishing Chimes, 29 (10). p. 21.