White Suckerfish
Remora albescens
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
The white suckerfish or mantasucker is a species of remora in the family Echeneidae, a group of elongated marine fish with adhesive discs for attaching to larger organisms. They are known for their large lips and white color. The distribution of this species is worldwide in warm open seas: it is found in the western Indian Ocean including Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Chile, and in the western and eastern central Atlantic Ocean from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil and St. Paul's Rocks.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Echeneidae
- Genus
- Remora