Sharksucker

Quick meaning: Sharksucker is a noun meaning The remora or suckerfish.

Meaning

The remora or suckerfish.

Example Sentences

The sharksucker may be found free swimming but is most often found hitchhiking on a larger fish by attaching itself to the fish with the sucker disk on top of its head.

Remoras and sharksuckers directly attach themselves to large sharks, Manta Rays, and large bony fish, feeding on scraps of their hosts' dinners and taking smaller fish not eaten by the host.

Shark fishermen sometimes receive an unexpected bonus in the form of small fishes known as remoras, or sharksuckers, which are attached to the sharks by a sucking disk located on the top of the head.

Word Forms

• sharksuckers

Synonyms for sharksucker

Depending on context, synonyms include echeneid, echeneidid, remora, suckerfish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include suckfish, suckerfish, sucking-fish, sucker, suckstone, pegador.

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