Early Figures of the Remora

Abstract

As remarked by Dr. Albert Günther, in his article on the history of the Remora (“On the History of the Echeneis,” Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1860, ser. 3, vol v., p. 386), “there is scarcely a fish of the existence of which the ancients have been equally certain, and which has so much occupied their imagination as the Echeneis of the Greeks or Remora of the Latins.” Also, the same author continues, “there is scarcely a group of fishes which has been so little comparatively treated, and which has experienced a similar splitting up into nominal species.”