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Definition of Echeneididae
1. Noun. Fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships.
Exact synonyms: Family Echeneidae, Family Echeneididae
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Discocephali, Order Discocephali
Member holonyms: Remora, Suckerfish, Sucking Fish, Echeneis, Genus Echeneis, Genus Remilegia, Remilegia
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Discocephali, Order Discocephali
Member holonyms: Remora, Suckerfish, Sucking Fish, Echeneis, Genus Echeneis, Genus Remilegia, Remilegia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Echeneididae
Literary usage of Echeneididae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animals: A Text-book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Harold Heath (1905)
"... Raja, black-fish, mud-fish, trout, Sdl'mo, chub, horned dace, echeneididae
Amphiprion, No- metu, hag-fish, ..."
2. Elements of Zoölogy: A Text-book by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"... under the name of Remora or echeneididae. Upon the FIG. 337. Remora, Echeneis.
head they have a flattened disk composed of transverse cartilaginous ..."
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