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Remora brachyptera
Photo take at -70 ft on a sandy bottom next to the reef wall, this guys where part of the sharks attendants and they have a strange begeivor by leaying on the bottom and stay statics i have seen this before many times. this is a big fish it can grow up to 80 cm long.Body cylindrical and elongate; possessing an oblong cephalic disk with 14 to 17 transverse laminae; cranium depressed (supporting cephalic disk); dorsal fin with 27 to 44 rays; first gill arch with fewer than 21 gill rakers; body entirely white to pale blue.
Worldwide in warm seas. Subtropical Marine; pelagic-oceanic fish.
Spotted on Nov 18, 2012
Submitted on Nov 18, 2012
4 Comments
Hahaha yes I think the same :)
They lost their shark, I think.
Yes Ava indeed is weird is still don´t know the reason and i have ask some of my biologist friends and they are in blank whit this.
They just lie down and stay there? Weird!