Live Sharksucker

• The juveniles sometimes act as cleaners from fixed stations on the reef, servicing parrotfish.
• In several traditional fisheries a line is tied to a remora's tail stalk and the fish released: when it attaches itself to another fish, both are hauled in.
• It attaches itself to boats and divers too; there are records of individuals stuck to a diver's leg.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bony fish)

Habitat and environment

Coastal waters and tropical and subtropical reefs of every ocean, between 1 and 85 m, often attached to sharks, rays, turtles and large fish

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echeneis_naucrates

The pins mark the parks and dive sites where its presence is documented.