Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.

marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects

a fish that attaches itself to the side of a larger creature like a whale or a shark

a fish that follows a shark around making a living stealing its food

a fish that swims on the underbelly of sharks, whales, other large animals

a kind of fish that hitches a ride on the back of a shark (They eat tiny shellfish and copepods that normally infest a sharks fins and gills

a pelagic (open ocean) fish found in warmer areas

a small creature which attaches itself to a shark and eats parasites off of his skin, a symbiotic relashionship

a sucker-fish, or bottom-feeder, that eats the stuff other fish don't want from ocean floors

a animal that sucks on a shark and rides along with the shark

parasite ( language= Yeibichai/slang); on , any of several saltwater fishes that have a sucking disk on the head with which they attach themselves to sharks, whales, or hulls of ships

Remora (family Echeinidae) are small fish that live on and around sharks. They eat stray bits of food left by the shark and tiny shrimp-like parasites that live on the shark's skin. They have sucker-like disks on their heads with which they attach to the shark. Both the shark and the remora benefit from the pairing, but the remore benefits much more; this is commensalism. Remora are also known as sucker fish or shark sucker.

Remoras or suckerfish are elongate brown fish in order Perciformes and family Echeneidae. They grow up to 30-90 cm long (1-3 feet), and their distinctive first dorsal fin takes the form of a modified oval sucker-like organ with slat-like structures that open and close to create suction and take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals. By sliding backward, the remora can increase the suction, or it can release itself by swimming forward.