| NOUN | animal | Echeneididae, family Echeneididae, family Echeneidae | fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships |
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| Meaning | fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships. | |
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| Synonyms | family Echeneididae, family Echeneidae | |
| Member of | Discocephali, order Discocephali | small order of fishes comprising the remoras |
| Members | Echeneis, genus Echeneis | type genus of the Echeneididae |
| Remilegia, genus Remilegia | A genus of Echeneididae | |
| remora, suckerfish, sucking fish | marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | |
| Broader | fish family | Any of various families of fish |
| Spanish | equeneídidos | |
| Catalan | equeneïdids | |
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