albescens, Echeneis Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1850:no page number, Pl. 20 (fig. 3) [Fauna Japonica Last part (15); ref. 4375] Nagasaki, Japan. No types known. Based on figure and manuscript of Burger (Boeseman 1947:193 [ref. 12876]). Dates to publication of Pl. 20, text p. 272 appeared in 1850. •Valid as Remorina albescens (Temminck & Schlegel 1850) -- (Lachner 1973:640 [ref. 7221], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:205 [ref. 9277], Dor 1984:122 [ref. 29757], Okamura in Masuda et al. 1984:223 [ref. 6441], Lachner in Whitehead et al. 1986:1334 [ref. 13677], Heemstra 1986:664 [ref. 5660], Robins & Ray 1986:158 [ref. 23100], Paxton et al. 1989:572 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:60 [ref. 14125], Lachner & Post 1990:728 [ref. 18541], Boschung 1992:130 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1993:52 [ref. 24474], Goren & Dor 1994:33 [ref. 25356], Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995:1060 [ref. 22829], Santos et al. 1997:84 [ref. 23531], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:356 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:121 [ref. 24952], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:98 [ref. 24555], Fricke 1999:243 [ref. 24106], Collette 1999:2653 [ref. 24785], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:232 [ref. 25013], Nakabo 2000:787 [ref. 25086], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:615 [ref. 25122], Randall & Earle 2000:13 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:33 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:787 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:324, 601 [ref. 26218] dated 1845, Collette 2003:1419 [ref. 27087], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S107 [ref. 27377], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:79 [ref. 27192] dated 1845, Love et al. 2005:115 [ref. 37547], Randall 2005:220 [ref. 28239], Shinohara et al. 2005:433 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:362 [ref. 28379], Vaske et al. 2005:77 [ref. 36155], Lee & Joo 2006:61 [ref. 28642], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:262 [ref. 28815], Paxton et al. 2006:1137 [ref. 28994], Randall 2007:221 [ref. 30952], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:192 [ref. 30957], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Fourriére et al. 2016:458 [ref. 34668], Golani & Fricke 2018:82 [ref. 36273], Love et al. 2021:157 [ref. 39279]). •Valid as Remora albescens (Temminck & Schlegel 1850) -- (Paulin et al. 1989:182 [ref. 24556], O'Toole 2002:616 [ref. 26411], Schwartz 2004:3 [ref. 27806], Nelson et al. 2004:139 [ref. 27807], Gray et al. 2009:190, 194 [ref. 31117], Page et al. 2013:146 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2014:7 [ref. 33516], Psomadakis et al. 2015:213 [ref. 34104], Trnski 2015:1240 [ref. 34198], Collette in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2446 [ref. 34618], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:609 [ref. 34923], Kells et al. 2016:232 [ref. 35888], Brown et al. 2019:166 [ref. 36444], Carneiro et al. 2019:249 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:185 [ref. 38139], Sonoyama et al. 2020:61 [ref. 37637], Love et al. 2021:157 [ref. 39279], Parenti 2021:569 [ref. 38651], Shirke et al. 2021:34 [ref. 38065], Fermon et al. 2022:242 [ref. 39448] possible, Grove et al. 2022:19 [ref. 41326], Heemstra 2022:71 [ref. 39885], Carvalho-Filho 2023:136 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:128 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Remora albescens (Temminck & Schlegel 1850). Echeneidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas (including Red Sea; Sea of Japan; central and southern Gulf of California/Mexico). Habitat: marine.