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pilot fish (Naucrates ductor)
Subject: pilot fish (Naucrates ductor)
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pilot fish (Naucrates ductor)


Author H. L. Todd
English: Pilot-Fish
Naucrates ductor (L.), Raf.
Subject: Carangidae, Naucrates
Tag: Fish
Date 1884
Source/Photographer
English: George Brown Goode (1884) Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States: Section I, Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals, Plates, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_50963_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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