Species: Remora albescens, White Remora, White Suckerfish Remora, White suckerfish

Remora albescens (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)

White suckerfish, White remora

Moderately elongate, robust; sucking disc on head medium length, reaches ~to tips of pectorals, with 12-14 plates; jaws broad, lower jaw projecting, top jaw not protractile; simple teeth on jaws, center of roof of mouth; operculum without spines; lower gill rakers ~10, including rudiments; pectoral broad, rounded 18-21 rays; dorsal with relatively short base, 15-22 rays; anal base ~ head length, 20-26 rays; pectorals rounded, high on body; pelvics small, blunt, narrowly joined to belly by membrane; tail bluntly straight to slightly rounded (forked in juvenile); scales small, smooth, imbedded.