What is that triangular fish in Cozumel/Caribbean?

[Ready4Launch]

What are the fish swimming with the bull shark in the second photo?

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They seem to be a very triangular body around the front part. Flat topped head. Mouth is seemingly on the top. I've seen videos where there is seemingly no sharks around. Seem pretty common in Cozumel area. Very interesting. Not like a fish I've seen anywhere else.

 

[Joneill]

What are the fish swimming with the bull shark in the second photo?

Diving with the Bulls - Pro Dive Mexico

They seem to be a very triangular body around the front part. Flat topped head. Mouth is seemingly on the top. I've seen videos where there is seemingly no sharks around. Seem pretty common in Cozumel area. Very interesting. Not like a fish I've seen anywhere else.

I'd say Remora.

 

[Dan]

Remora

 

[Ready4Launch]

Got it - thanks!

 

[scubadada]

@Ready4Launch

No, it's a Whitefin Sharksucker

Bad picture, but quite certain. The white borders on the dark tail are a giveaway.

 

[rhwestfall]

Whitefin Sharksucker

a species of what is more commonly called a "remora"...

IF you want to get all fancy, then it is a "Echeneis neucratoides"

 

[scubadada]

a species of what is more commonly called a "remora"...

IF you want to get all fancy, then it is a "Echeneis neucratoides"

@rhwestfall,

Whatever you say, personally, it gives me the creeps when one of the sharksuckers think I am their object of attachment. I have had them target me on the outside of the reef, swim over the reef with me, and follow me on the inside of the reef. I can't stand thinking they have left, only to have them come back under me and bump me on the chest. Most of ours in SE FL are Sharksuckers not Whitefin Sharksuckers, many quite large, 2-3 feet. You have sharksuckers in the St Lawrence?

 

[CuzzA]

They are super annoying and when I see really big ones on me I start wondering where its usual host is and how big it must be.

 

[Joneill]

@Ready4Launch

No, it's a Whitefin Sharksucker
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Bad picture, but quite certain. The white borders on the dark tail are a giveaway.

BTW - the OP said "in the second photo". The image you posted is not from the second photo... and it's a remora anyhow.

 

[scubadada]

Those are all Whitefin Sharksuckers also, what's your problem?