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Genera in the family or subfamily Echeneidae: [ 10 ] records

Echeneis Linnaeus [C.] 1758:260 Fem. Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus 1758. Type designated bythe ICZN under plenary powers (emendation of neucrates). On Official List (Opinions 92 and 242). Also appeared as new in Billberg 1833:53 [ref. 34146] with reference to Aristoteles; see Kullander 2016:111 [ref. 34147]. •Valid as Echeneis Linnaeus 1758 -- (Lachner 1973:637 [ref. 7221], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:222 [ref. 6441], Heemstra 1986:662 [ref. 5660], Lachner in Whitehead et al. 1986:1330 [ref. 13677], Paxton et al. 1989:571 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:578 [ref. 22532], Lindberg et al. 1997:20 [ref. 23547], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:272 [ref. 24550], Collette 1999:2653 [ref. 24785], O'Toole 2002:616 [ref. 26411], Collette 2003:1415 [ref. 27087], Parin 2003:S5 [ref. 28536], Paxton et al. 2006:1136 [ref. 28994], Gomon 2008:573 [ref. 30616], Motomura 2009:114 [ref. 30446], Gray et al. 2009:184 [ref. 31117], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:43 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:359 [ref. 33547], Trnski 2015:1238 [ref. 34198], Motomura et al. 2017:102 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:178 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:81 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:166 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:143 [ref. 36673], Parenti 2021:566 [ref. 38651]). Current status: Valid as Echeneis Linnaeus 1758. Echeneidae.

Leptecheneis Gill [T. N.] 1864:60 Fem. Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus 1758. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Objective synonym of Echeneis Linnaeus 1758 -- (Lachner 1973:637 [ref. 7221], Lachner in Whitehead et al. 1986:1330 [ref. 13677], Lindberg et al. 1997:20 [ref. 23547], Parenti 2021:567 [ref. 38651]). Current status: Synonym of Echeneis Linnaeus 1758. Echeneidae.

Phtheirichthys Gill [T. N.] 1862:239 Masc. Echeneis lineata Menzies 1791. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Type designated by Gill's style of type enclosed in parentheses in key. •Valid as Phtheirichthys Gill 1862 -- (Lachner 1973:637 [ref. 7221], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:222 [ref. 6441], Lachner in Whitehead et al. 1986:1330 [ref. 13677], Heemstra 1986:662 [ref. 5660], Paxton et al. 1989:571 [ref. 12442], Lindberg et al. 1997:19 [ref. 23547], Collette 1999:2653 [ref. 24785], O'Toole 2002:616 [ref. 26411], Collette 2003:1415 [ref. 27087], Paxton et al. 2006:1136 [ref. 28994], Gray et al. 2009:184 [ref. 31117], Trnski 2015:1239 [ref. 34198], Parenti 2021:568 [ref. 38651]). Current status: Valid as Phtheirichthys Gill 1862. Echeneidae.

Pseudoremora Taranetz [A. Ya.] 1937:139 Fem. Pseudoremora golubevi Taranetz 1937. Type by monotypy. •Synonym of Remora Gill 1862 -- (Lindberg et al. 1997:26 [ref. 23547], Parin 2003:S5 [ref. 28536], Parin et al. 2014:359 [ref. 33547], Parenti 2021:569 [ref. 38651]). Current status: Synonym of Remora Gill 1862. Echeneidae.

Remilegia Gill [T. N.] 1862:239 Fem. Echeneis scutata Günther 1860. Type by original designation (name in parentheses in key), also monotypic. •Synonym of Remora Gill 1862 -- (Lachner 1973:638 [ref. 7221], Lindberg et al. 1997:26 [ref. 23547], Parenti 2021:568 [ref. 38651]). Current status: Synonym of Remora Gill 1862. Echeneidae.

Remora Gill [T. N.] 1862:239 Fem. Echeneis remora Linnaeus 1758. Type by original designation (name in parentheses in key). On Official List (Opinion 242); Remora Goüan 1770:183 and Remora Forster 1771:20 placed on Official Index. •Valid as Remora Gill 1862 -- (Lachner 1973:638 [ref. 7221], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:222 [ref. 6441], Lachner in Whitehead et al. 1986:1331 [ref. 13677], Heemstra 1986:663 [ref. 5660], Paxton et al. 1989:572 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:580 [ref. 22532], Lindberg et al. 1997:25 [ref. 23547], Collette 1999:2653 [ref. 24785], O'Toole 2002:616 [ref. 26411], Collette 2003:1415 [ref. 27087], Parin 2003:S5 [ref. 28536], Paxton et al. 2006:1136 [ref. 28994], Gomon 2008:574 [ref. 30616], Gray et al. 2009:184 [ref. 31117], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:44 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:359 [ref. 33547], Trnski 2015:1240 [ref. 34198], Fricke et al. 2018:179 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:81 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:166 [ref. 36444], Parenti 2021:568 [ref. 38651]). Current status: Valid as Remora Gill 1862. Echeneidae.

Remora Catesby [M.] 1771:26 Fem. Not available, published in a rejected work on Official Index (Opinion 89, Opinion 259). Suppressed. Echeneidae.

Remorina (subgenus of Remora) Jordan [D. S.] & Evermann [B. W.] 1896:490 Fem. Echeneis albescens Temminck & Schlegel 1850. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Valid as Remorina Jordan & Evermann 1896 -- (Lachner 1973:640 [ref. 7221], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:223 [ref. 6441], Lachner in Whitehead et al. 1986:1334 [ref. 13677], Paxton et al. 1989:572 [ref. 12442], Lindberg et al. 1997:37 [ref. 23547], Collette 1999:2653 [ref. 24785], Collette 2003:1415 [ref. 27087], Paxton et al. 2006:1137 [ref. 28994], Golani & Fricke 2018:82 [ref. 36273]). •Synonym of Remora Gill 1862 -- (O'Toole 2002:616 [ref. 26411], Gray et al. 2009 [ref. 31117] based on placement of albescens, Parenti 2021:568 [ref. 38651]). Current status: Synonym of Remora Gill 1862. Echeneidae.

Remoropsis Gill [T. N.] 1863:88 Fem. Echeneis brachyptera Lowe 1839. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Synonym of Remora Gill 1862 -- (Lachner 1973:638 [ref. 7221], Lindberg et al. 1997:26 [ref. 23547], Parenti 2021:568 [ref. 38651]). Current status: Synonym of Remora Gill 1862. Echeneidae.

Rhombochirus Gill [T. N.] 1863:88 Masc. Echeneis osteochir Cuvier 1829. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Synonym of Remora Gill 1862 -- (Lachner 1973:638 [ref. 7221], Lindberg et al. 1997:26 [ref. 23547], Parenti 2021:568 [ref. 38651]). Current status: Synonym of Remora Gill 1862. Echeneidae.