Definition of Genus Echeneis

1. Noun. Type genus of the Echeneididae: typical remoras.

Exact synonyms: Echeneis
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Echeneididae, Family Echeneidae, Family Echeneididae
Member holonyms: Echeneis Naucrates, Sharksucker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Echeneis

genus Dryas
genus Drymarchon
genus Drymoglossum
genus Drynaria
genus Dryopithecus
genus Dryopteris
genus Drypis
genus Dugong
genus Dumetella
genus Durio
genus Dusicyon
genus Dysdercus
genus Eacles
genus Eburophyton
genus Ecballium
genus Echeneis (current term)
genus Echidnophaga
genus Echinacea
genus Echinocactus
genus Echinocereus
genus Echinochloa
genus Echinococcus
genus Echinops
genus Echium
genus Ectopistes
genus Edaphosaurus
genus Edmontosaurus
genus Egeria
genus Egretta
genus Eichhornia

Literary usage of Genus Echeneis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology of New Jersey by New Jersey Geological Survey, George Hammell Cook (1868)
"Crab-eater. A very rare fish that occasionally is met with on our coast, and in Delaware B»y. Genus ECHENEIS. ..."

2. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"The genus Echeneis is the prin- Fig. 228. Fig. 229. White-tailed Remora, E. albicauda, Mitch. Disk of Remora. cipal one. The species are few, ..."

3. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"... ventrals narrowly attached to abdomen. 22 to 32; pectorals rounded; ventrals broadly attached to abdomen ECHENEIS. LEPT ECHENEIS. Genus ECHENEIS ..."

4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1881)
"Genus ECHENEIS, Artedi. Body fusiform, with very small scales ; head depressed ; the spinous dorsal modified into an adhesive disk ; no keel on the side of ..."

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