Remora remora
(Linnaeus, 1758) · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Remora remora's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation12 languages↗
Animal Diversity WebUniv. of Michigan MZspecies account↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 344 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System1 341 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI14 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics20 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
The common remora (Remora remora) is a pelagic marine fish belonging to family Echeneidae. The dorsal fin, which has 22 to 26 soft rays, acts as a suction cup, creating a vacuumFishes of the World, 3rd edition. Joseph S. Nelson. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, Inc, 1994. p. 351 to allow it to attach to larger marine animals, such as whales, dolphins, sharks, and sea turtles.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology2
Habitat & environment2
Uses & economy1
Other traits3
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Remora remora has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type2 685 records
Origin
Range
Depth
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions22 of 62 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Washington, US | 143 |
| University of California San Diegolocation not on record | 126 |
| Paris, FR | 69 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 59 |
| CASlocation not on record | 57 |
| Cambridge, US | 45 |
| Sydney, AU | 44 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 34 |
| Los Angeles, US | 30 |
| University of Texas Biodiversity Collections (UTBC)location not on record | 26 |
| Toronto, CA | 18 |
| Kagoshima University Museumlocation not on record | 18 |
| Chicago, US | 18 |
| FishBaselocation not on record | 18 |
| New Haven, US | 16 |
| South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversitylocation not on record | 14 |
| Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record | 12 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 11 |
| Zoologisches Museum Hamburglocation not on record | 10 |
| DOI/NPS, Salem Maritime National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 9 |
| Vancouver, CA | 7 |
| Western Australian Museumlocation not on record | 6 |
| Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politécnico Nacionallocation not on record | 6 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 6 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 5 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 5 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 5 |
| Helsinki, FI | 5 |
| Morelia, MX | 5 |
| Natick, US | 4 |
| Museums Victorialocation not on record | 4 |
| Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collectionlocation not on record | 4 |
| UWFClocation not on record | 4 |
| 4 | |
| Honolulu, US | 4 |
| Oregon State Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| UFESlocation not on record | 3 |
| Mexico City, MX | 3 |
| Stockholm, SE | 3 |
| QVMAGlocation not on record | 3 |
| DASSHlocation not on record | 3 |
| Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciêncialocation not on record | 3 |
| Universidad del Valle (UniValle)location not on record | 3 |
| Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record | 2 |
| IEO-COMA-CSIClocation not on record | 2 |
| Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallerylocation not on record | 2 |
| Auckland, NZ | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 1 |
| Centro Regional de Investigación Acuícola y Pesquera, Bahía de Banderas, Instituto Nacional de Pescalocation not on record | 1 |
| National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korealocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Kansas, Biodiversity Research Centerlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad Católica del Nortelocation not on record | 1 |
| National Natural History Collectionslocation not on record | 1 |
| Central Michigan University Museum of Cultural and Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Alabamalocation not on record | 1 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 1 |
| Musée Zoologique de la ville de Strasbourglocation not on record | 1 |
| Fisheries Research Laboratory, Mie Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| UFRRJlocation not on record | 1 |
| Barcelona, ES | 1 |
Where the DNA of Remora remora was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.