fusca, Echeneis Gronow [L. T.] in Gray 1854:92 [Catalogue of fish collected and described by Laurence Theodore Gronow; ref. 1911] American Ocean. Syntypes: BMNH 1853.11.12.117 [Gronovius coll.] (1, skin). Type catalog: Wheeler 1958:244 [ref. 13434] but as holotype. •Synonym of Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus 1758 -- (Wheeler 1958:244 [ref. 13434], Lachner 1973:637 [ref. 7221], Lachner & Post 1990:725 [ref. 18541], Lindberg et al. 1997:21 [ref. 23547], Parenti 2021:567 [ref. 38651]). Current status: Synonym of Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus 1758. Echeneidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.