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Definition of Family Echeneididae
1. Noun. Fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships.
Exact synonyms: Echeneididae, Family Echeneidae
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 Family Echeneididae
Literary usage of Family Echeneididae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"A common sucking ftsh of the remora family (Echeneididae), found in all warm seas
attached to sharks and other large fishes, turtles, and the like, ..."
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