Spearfish Remora
Remora brachyptera
Also known as: Marlin Sucker, Spearfish Sucker, Swordfish Remora, Swordfish Sucker
- Marlin Sucker
- Spearfish Sucker
- Swordfish Remora
- Swordfish Sucker
Overview
Found singly or in schools often with Billfish, Sharks and Swordfish
They feed on scraps of food or parasites from their hosts.
Juveniles sometimes found at cleaning stations acting as cleaners.
Remoras have a sucker on top of their heads to attach to anything that moves!
They spend their days Hitch hiking between large fish such as sharks, manta rays, turtles etc.
They are quite keen to hitch a lift with divers as well.
If they do attach push forward to remove!
They feed on scraps of food from their hosts or parasites on their hosts.
How to identify
- Pattern
- black stripes
- Behaviour
- approaches diversschoolingsolitary
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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Circumtropical
Found singly or in schools often with Billfish, Sharks and Swordfish
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Remoras (Echeneidae)



