echeneid

plural echeneids

1. Any fish of the family Echeneidae (the remoras or suckerfish).

   Postflexion stage, larvae, and juveniles of some echeneids have been illustrated by Richards (2005a).

   2010, Kathleen Sabina Cole, Reproduction and Sexuality in Marine Fishes: Patterns and Processes, page 38

   2 more examples

   They are characterized by a unique cephalic sucking disc by which the echeneid attaches itself externally to its host.

   2000, T. Trnski, J. M. Leis, “81: Echeneidae (Remoras)”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 518

   With a force applied to their caudal peduncle, the echeneids generated suction pressure differentials averaging –92.7 kPa within the disk cavity while attached to Plexiglas.

   2015, Hermann Ehrlich, Biological Materials of Marine Origin: Vertebrates, page 430

   Synonyms: echeneidid, remora, suckerfish