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• n  marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects

• As Simon Lake, modern submarine inventor, pondered ways of rescuing the crews of foundered submarines, he recalled the remora.
• Like remora fish hitching rides on sharks, the new craft will hook on to conventional nuclear sub marines and be carried along to rescue sites.

• suckerfish
• sucking fish

News & Articles

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• Fossil shows fish had sucker on its back
  A 30-million year-old fossil has revealed how remoras -- also called sharksuckers -- evolved the sucker that enables them to stick to other fishes and 'hitch a ride'.
  July 26, 2013 - Science Daily