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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Echeneidae — thesuckerfishes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of fishes whose habitat is in the vicinity of rocks there is a tiny one, which some call the Echeneis, or
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Today, he survives as the Echeneis naucrates, or "Live Sharksucker," or "Slender Suckerfish."
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Today, he survives as the Echeneis naucrates, or "Live Sharksucker," or "Slender Suckerfish."
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When the South-wind is blowing and your oarsmen are urging on your vessels, has the sucking-fish (Echeneis) fastened its bite upon them through the liquid waves?
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872
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The inhabitants of Cuba then employed a small fish to take the great sea turtles; they fastened a long cord to the tail of the reves (the name given by the Spaniards to that species of Echeneis*).
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Perhaps the most interesting fact in the history of the _Echeneis_ is its being the same fish as that known to the Spanish navigators as the
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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The fish that had thus singularly fallen into their hands was, as Ben had stated, the sucking-fish, _Echeneis remora_, -- one of the most curious creatures that inhabit the sea.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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A smaller species of the sucking-fish is found in the Mediterranean, -- the _Echeneis remora_.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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The sucet spoken of by Columbus and Martin d’Anghiera was probably the Echeneis naucrates and not the
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The sucet spoken of by Columbus and Martin d'Anghiera was probably the Echeneis naucrates and not the Echeneis remora.)
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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