Species Remora australis (Bennett, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Echeneis australis Bennett, F.D. 1840. Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Around the Globe from the Year 1833–1836. Comprising sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian Archipelago, etc., with an account of southern whales, the sperm whale fishery, and the natural history of the climates visited. London : Bentley Vol. 2 395 pp. 2 pls. [273].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, unknown locality.

 

Generic Combinations

• Remoropsis australis (Bennett, 1840). —
  Whitley, G.P. 1949. Sucking fishes. Australian Museum Magazine 10(1): 17-23 [23]
• Remora australis (Bennett, 1840). —
  McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [382]
• Remilegia australis (Bennett, 1840). —
  Jordan, D.S. & Evermann, B.W. 1898. The fishes of North and middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 47(3): 2183a-3136 [2270]
  Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [56] (2129, changed combination cited)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Port Adelaide, SA (138º30´E) and Bicton, WA (32º02´S); temperate, circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Inshore, marine, oceanic, pelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Attach to whales.

 

General References

Collette, B.B. 1999. Family Echeneidae. pp. 2652-2654 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 4 pp. 2069-2790. [2653]

Glover, C.J.M. 1994. Families Pomatomidae, Echeneididae. pp. 577-582 figs 512-515 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [580]

Gomon, M.F. 2008. Families Rachycentridae and Echeneidae. pp. 571-575 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [574]

Gray, K.N., McDowell, J.R., Collette, B.B. & Graves, J.E. 2009. A molecular phylogeny of the remoras and their relatives. Bulletin of Marine Science 84(2): 183-198 [190]

O'Toole, B. 2002. Phylogeny of the species of the superfamily Echeneoidea (Perciformes: Carangoidei: Echeneidae, Rachycentridae, and Coryphaenidae), with an interpretation of echeneid hitchhiking behaviour. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80(4): 596-623 [616]

 

Common Name References

Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [580] (Whalesucker, Indian Suckerfish)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Whalesucker)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2012		05-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED