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).