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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Live Sharksucker (Echeneis Naucrates)

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The live sharksucker or slender sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates) is a species of marine fish in the family Echeneidae, the remoras. The species is considered as circumtropical, as it occurs in all tropical and warm temperate waters around the world. The species can be found close to the coast, as well as offshore at a maximum depth of 50 m (160 ft). A live sharksucker is known to attached itself temporarily by its modified dorsal fin used as a sucking disc to various hosts, such as sharks, rays, large bony fishes, sea turtles, whales, dolphins, ships, and even sometimes scubadivers. 
(From Wikipedia)
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