Remora
Echeneis naucrates
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Echeneidae
- Genus
- Echeneis
Where to Find
Found in 78 diving areas across 52 countries and 10 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 76 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 10 records
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 37 records
- Victoria, Australia - 14 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 6 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 200 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 21 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 18 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 2 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 2 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 2 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 2 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 2 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 2 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 2 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 2 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 6 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 6 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 12 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 7 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 6 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 3 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 2 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 2 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 17 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 21 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 2 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 2 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 3 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 4 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 4 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 4 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 7 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 38 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 1 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 4 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 9 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 5 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Corsica, France - 1 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea - 6 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 2 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 11 records
- Koh Rong Archipelago, Cambodia - 1 records
- Koh Tang & Offshore, Cambodia - 1 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 14 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 1 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 6 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 8 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 3 records
- Koh Tao, Thailand - 1 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 6 records
- Hoi An & Cu Lao Cham, Vietnam - 2 records