family echeneidae

English Thesaurus

1. fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	fish family,
definition	:	any of various families of fish (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	remora, suckerfish, sucking fish,
definition	:	marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	echeneis, genus echeneis,
definition	:	type genus of the Echeneididae: typical remoras (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus remilegia, remilegia,
definition	:	a genus of Echeneididae (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	discocephali, order discocephali,
definition	:	small order of fishes comprising the remoras (noun.animal)