| Aspect: |
Flatish yellow to light brown elongated body with faint thin white line running from snout to tail. Bright yellow fins and tailfin, yellow to light grey belly. NOTICE: This sharksucker variation does not appear to have been described, hence our unofficial "Yellow Sharksucker" designation |
| Population: | Seldom seen swimming around on its own. |
| Notable feature: | Flattened head top hosts a number of sucking patches to enable it to attach to larger fish - typically sharks, but also Jacks and turtles. Often seen attached belly up on the back of turtle shells. |
| Environment: | Usually stays stuck under carrier fishes with the purpose of catching food "left-overs" when the carrier fish catches a prey. |
| Behaviour: | Unafraid. |
