Definition of Echeneididae

1. Noun. Fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Echeneididae

Eburophyton austinae
Ecballium elaterium
Ecbatana
Ecc.
Eccl.
Eccles
Eccles.
Eccles cake
Eccles cakes
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastical Latin
Ecclesiasticus
Eccleston
Ecclus.
Echelon
Echeneididae (current term)
Echeneis
Echeneis naucrates
Echidna
Echidnophaga
Echidnophaga gallinacea
Echinidan
Echinidans
Echinocactus grusonii
Echinocereus
Echinochasmus
Echinochloa
Echinochloa crusgalli
Echinochloa frumentacea
Echinodermata

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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