Suckerfish

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Suckerfish
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Real-world info
Name: Echeneis naucrates (slender sharksucker) Family: Echeneidae (remoras)
Main appearances
DnM DnM+ AC DnMe+ iQue WW CF NL NH
Other appearances
Film HHD aF PC
Names in other languages  コバンザメ  빨판상어  Remora  Schiffshalter  吸盘鱼  Rémora rayé  Rémora  Zuigvis  吸盤魚  Rémora rayé  Rémora  Прилипала

The suckerfish is an uncommon fish introduced in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It acts as the sea bass equivalent to the shark family, which is even reflected in the player's catch quote. It sells for a paltry  1,500 Bells and is much more common in comparison to the actual sharks. It appears with a finned shadow in the sea all day long from summer to early fall.

Catch details

In New Horizons

#76

"I caught a suckerfish! I thought it was a shark! Oh, wait——now I get it. "Sucker"..."

Time of year	North: Jun – Sep South: Dec – Mar
Time of day	All day
Location	Sea
Shadow size	Very large (finned)
Rarity	Rare
Spawn requirement	Catch 20 total fish
Selling prices	Nook's Cranny:  1,500 Bells  C.J.:  2,250 Bells
Furniture size

Donating to the museum

In New Horizons

When donating to Blathers or selecting "Tell me about this!" in New Horizons, he will provide the following information about the fish:

"The suckerfish is a curious fish that likes to attach itself with its sucker mouth to larger marine animals. The benefit to the suckerfish is that it gets to eat smaller parasites and dead skin off the host's body. Amusingly, some people have used suckerfish on cords to catch large turtles with the fish's own suction! I imagine this practice is the cause of some awkward conversations between fish and turtle, eh wot?"

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Real-world information

Some real life suckerfish

The Remora family possess distinctive first dorsal fins that take the form of a modified oval, sucker-like organ with slat-like structures that open and close to create suction and take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals. They spend their lives clinging to a host animal such as a whale, turtle, shark or ray. The remora and its host organism likely possess a mutualistic relationship as the remora can move around on the host, removing ectoparasites and loose flakes of skin, while benefiting from the protection provided by the host and the constant flow of water across its gills. Although it was initially believed that remoras fed off particulate matter from the host's meals, this has been shown to be false; in reality, their diets are composed primarily of host feces.
More information on this topic is available at Wikipedia.

Names in other languages

	コバンザメ Kobanzame	Sharksucker (lit. "small-seal shark")
	빨판상어 ppalpansang-eo	Remora
	吸盘鱼 Xīpán yú	Sharksucker (lit. "pressure fish")
	吸盤魚 Unknown
	Прилипала Prilipala	Remora
	Zuigvis	Remora
	Schiffshalter	Remora
	Rémora	Remora
	Rémora rayé	Striped remora
	Remora	Remora