Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 157

Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) .

Spearfish Remora . To 50 cm (19.7 in) TL ( Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998); San Diego County (32°52’N, 117°17’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), southern California to Chile ( Miller and Lea 1972), including Gulf of California ( Galván-Magaña et al. 1996), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Pelagic; depth: surface to 200 m (656 ft) ( Robertson and Allen 2002).