Fish of the Remora genus of the Echeneidae (remoras or suckerfish) family of the superfamily Percoidea of the Perciformes order of the Acanthopterygii superorder.
(Shark sucker. Photo by © Philippe Béarez. fishbase.org)
Shark sucker (Remora remora) was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778).
It is a pelagic species. It sticks to the body of sharks and other large fish, as well as turtles, and it is found free floating as well. The maximum recorded length is 86.5 cm, specimens up to 40 cm long are more common. The maximum weight is 1.1 kg. It feeds on small parasitic crustaceans from the body of the “master”.
(Shark sucker. Photo by © Mohammad Moazzam Khan. fishbase.org)
They enter the Adriatic Sea together with their “masters”.
Names of shark sucker (Remora remora) in other languages as follows:
Peshku me ventuzë (Albanian), Ρεμόρα (Remora) (Greek), Rémora tiburonera (Spanish), Remora nera (Italian), Gemeiner Schiffshalter (German), Remora (Polish), Pegador (Portuguese), Прилипала–ремора (Prilipala–remora) (Russian), Priljepuša (Serbian, Croatian), Prilep (Slovenian), Yapışan balık (Turkish), Rémora des requins (French).