Live sharksucker
Amazing fact
Live sharksuckers have no swim bladder inside their bodies.
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Live sharksuckers have no swim bladder inside their bodies.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Live sharksucker
- Scientific name
- Echeneis naucrates
- Japanese name
- コバンザメ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Echeneidae
- Genus
- Echeneis
It lives in Japanese waters from Hokkaido to the Ryukyu Islands and in warm seas around the world, except the eastern Pacific.
How the Live sharksucker lives
It often swims in groups. It eats scraps dropped or rejected by the large animal it rides on. It also eats small crustacean parasites on its host's skin. Riding on another animal saves it energy during travel.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Range
- Warm seas worldwide except the eastern Pacific
Where the Live sharksucker has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- コバンザメ
- 简体中文
- 䲟
- 繁體中文
- 長印魚
- 한국어
- 빨판상어
- Español
- Rémora
- Français
- Rémora fuselé
- Deutsch
- Gestreifter Schiffshalter
- Português (Brasil)
- Rémora
- Italiano
- Remora
- العربية
- لشك ماص للقرش
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Gemin
- Русский
- Обыкновенный прилипало
- Türkçe
- Köpek Vantuzu
- ไทย
- ปลาเหาฉลาม
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — コバンザメChecked: 2026-11-04
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Echeneis naucratesChecked: 2026-11-06
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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