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IN order to test the action and mechanism of the disc in Echeneis and determine whether or not one function of the disc is to act as a sucker (in the strict sense of the word) a series of experiments were carried out.
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Hora, Rec. Ind. Mus. 22, pp. 533–587, pls. xxiv.–xxvi. (1921).
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SEWELL, R. The Adhesive Apparatus of the "Sucking-fish". Nature 115, 48–49 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115048b0
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