pilot fish (Naucrates ductor)

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pilot fish (Naucrates ductor)

Author Jonathan Couch (1789–1870)
English: Pilot Fish
Gasterosteus Ductor Naucrates Ductor Centronote Pilote
Subject: Gasterosteus, Pilot fish
Tag: Fish
Date 1877
Source/Photographer
English: Couch, Jonathan (1877) History of the Fishes of the British Isles, London: George Bell & Sons
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_46152_Pilot_Fish.jpeg

The pilot fish (Naucrates ductor) is a carnivorous fish of the trevally, or jackfish family, Carangidae. It is widely distributed and lives in warm or tropical open seas. The pilot fish congregates around sharks, rays, and sea turtles, where it eats ectoparasites on, and leftovers around the host species; younger pilot fish are usually associated with jellyfish and drifting seaweeds.

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