remora, Echeneis Linnaeus [C.] 1758:260 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Indian Ocean. Syntypes: ZMUU Linn. Coll. 58 (1). Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:25 [ref. 23530], Wheeler 1991:171, Fig. 10 [ref. 20102]. •Valid as Remora remora (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Lachner 1973:638 [ref. 7221], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:205 [ref. 9277], Dor 1984:122 [ref. 29757], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:222 [ref. 6441], Lachner in Whitehead et al. 1986:1333 [ref. 13677], Heemstra 1986:663 [ref. 5660], Robins & Ray 1986:158 [ref. 23100], Allen & Swainston 1988:76 [ref. 25477], Scott & Scott 1988:374 [ref. 25518], Paxton et al. 1989:572 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:60 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:182 [ref. 24556], McAllister 1990:214 [ref. 14674], Lachner & Post 1990:726 [ref. 18541], Boschung 1992:129 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1993:50 [ref. 24474], Francis 1993:161 [ref. 25479], Francis & Randall 1993:130 [ref. 20996], Allen & Robertson 1994:125 [ref. 22193], Gomon et al. 1994:581 [ref. 22532], Goren & Dor 1994:33 [ref. 25356], Andrew et al. 1995:22 [ref. 38009], Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995:1060 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:171 [ref. 22896], Allen & Robertson 1997:825 [ref. 41086], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:354 [ref. 24023], Allen 1997:118 [ref. 23977], Santos et al. 1997:84 [ref. 23531], Lindberg et al. 1997:27 [ref. 23547], Arruda 1997:121 [ref. 24952], Cheng & Zhou 1997:399 [ref. 26385], Kuiter 1997:154 [ref. 25488], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:98 [ref. 24555], Myers 1999:135 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:242 [ref. 24106], Collette 1999:2653 [ref. 24785], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:232 [ref. 25013], Johnson 1999:733 [ref. 25471], Randall 1999:14 [ref. 25829], Nakabo 2000:788 [ref. 25086], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:615 [ref. 25122], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:34 [ref. 25650], Randall & Earle 2000:13 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:33 [ref. 25847], Wang et al. 2001:328 [ref. 26566], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:82 [ref. 26753], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:408 [ref. 26158], Nakabo 2002:788 [ref. 26001], O'Toole 2002:616 [ref. 26411], Choi et al. 2003:324, 601 [ref. 26218], Collette 2003:1418 [ref. 27087], al. 1995:1061 [ref. 22829], Santos et al. 1997:84 [ref. 23531], Lindberg et al. 1997:33 [ref. 23547], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:355 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:120 [ref. 24952], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:98 [ref. 24555], Collette 1999:2653 [ref. 24785], Afonso et al. 1999:73 [ref. 25466], Allen 2000:88 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:788 [ref. 25086], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:615 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:32 [ref. 25847], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:407 [ref. 26158], Nakabo 2002:788 [ref. 26001], O'Toole 2002:616 [ref. 26411], Collette 2003:1418 [ref. 27087], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S106 [ref. 27377], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:79 [ref. 27192], Myers & Donaldson 2003:625 [ref. 27495], Parin 2003:S6 [ref. 28536], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:319 [ref. 28072], Lobel & Lobel 2004:71 [ref. 27576], Nelson et al. 2004:139 [ref. 27807], Randall et al. 2004:15 [ref. 27624], Schwartz 2004:3 [ref. 27806], Golani 2005:39 [ref. 37112], Love et al. 2005:115 [ref. 37547], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:261 [ref. 28815], Mundy 2005:361 [ref. 28379], Randall 2005:220 [ref. 28239], Shinohara et al. 2005:433 [ref. 28370], Vaske et al. 2005:77 [ref. 36155], Lee & Joo 2006:61 [ref. 28642], Paxton et al. 2006:1137 [ref. 28994], Fricke et al. 2007:83 [ref. 29533], Randall 2007:221 [ref. 30952], Fricke 2008:31 [ref. 30182], Gomon 2008:575 [ref. 30616], Springer & Smith-Vaniz 2008:29 [ref. 31826], Béarez & Séret 2009:147 [ref. 36646], Fricke et al. 2009:55 [ref. 30213], Gray et al. 2009:190 [ref. 31117], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:44 [ref. 36649], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:192 [ref. 30957], Bañon et al. 2010:16 [ref. 31029], Page et al. 2013:146 [ref. 32708], Fricke et al. 2013:258 [ref. 32706], Wirtz et al. 2013:123 [ref. 32972], Larson et al. 2013:117 [ref. 32988], Parin et al. 2014:359 [ref. 33547], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:50 [ref. 33341], Wirtz et al. 2014:7 [ref. 33516], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:113 [ref. 36167], Pinheiro et al. 2015:17 [ref. 34324], Psomadakis et al. 2015:214 [ref. 34104], Trnski 2015:1243 [ref. 34198], Collette in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2446 [ref. 34618], Fourriére et al. 2016:458 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:609 [ref. 34923], Koeda et al. 2016:36 [ref. 35333], Nión et al. 2016:47 [ref. 35565] with author as Cuvier 1829, Kells et al. 2016:234 [ref. 35888], Fricke et al. 2018:179 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:82 [ref. 36273], Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018:7 [ref. 36248], Spier et al. 2018:10 [ref. 36103], Artüz & Fricke 2019:556 [ref. 36612], Brown et al. 2019:166 [ref. 36444], Burton & Lea 2019:75 [ref. 37205], Carneiro et al. 2019:250 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:97 [ref. 36864], González-Murcia et al. 2019:299 [ref. 36544], Hoschke et al. 2019:156 [ref. 36626], Reiner 2019:186 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:67 [ref. 37515], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 15 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:123 [ref. 39118], Kovačić et al. 2020:37 [ref. 37519], Psomadakis et al. 2020:415 [ref. 37272], Robertson et al. 2020:154 [ref. 38098], Sonoyama et al. 2020:61 [ref. 37637], Bañón & Maño 2021:82 [ref. 38887], Carvalho-Filho et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:334 [ref. 38945], Dyldin & Orlov 2021:833 [ref. 38925], Golani 2021:48 [ref. 38303], Iglésias et al. 2021:176 [ref. 38818], Kovačić et al. 2021:47 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:157 [ref. 39279], Parenti 2021:570 [ref. 38651], Fermon et al. 2022:242 [ref. 39448], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:161 [ref. 41223], Grove et al. 2022:19 [ref. 41326], Heemstra 2022:73 [ref. 39885], Bagley et al. 2023:318 [ref. 41241], Carvalho-Filho 2023:136 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:128 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:198 [ref. 40816]). Current status: Valid as Remora remora (Linnaeus 1758). Echeneidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico; Caribbean Sea; western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Red Sea; Sea of Japan; southern and central Gulf of California/Mexico). IUCN (2017): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.