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Scientific Name: Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758)
English Name: Shark sucker, Common Remora
Local/Bangla Name: Hangar chhat (হাঙ্গর চাট), Juta mach (জুতা মাছ)
Labcode: F1612Sb-61, F1612Sb-61
Photo: Ken Graham(GBIF)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Family: Echeneidae
Description:
D1 36; D2 absent; P120; P2 I/5; A 35. Color nearly uniform above and below is blackish or brownish. Head is rather long and flattened. No swim bladder and uses a sucking disc on the top of its head to obtain rides from other animals such as large sharks, and sea turtles. The sucking disk, developed from a transformed spinous dorsal fin. The lower jaw projects past the upper jaw and the teeth, located in jaws and vomer in a villiform patch, are sharply pointed. The scales are small and cycloid.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Coral reef ecosystem of Saint Martin’s Island, Bangladesh
Environment:
Marine (Reef associated fish)
Other References:
Hossain MS, Chowdhury SR, Sharifuzzaman SM , Islam MM, Hasan J, Haque MA , Ali MZ, Hoq ME, Mahmud Y. Marine Fishes of Bangladesh (2020) Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute and Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Chattogram, 512pp.
