A survivor from the yacht was rescued as Cobias first prisoner of war.

Of Cobias six war patrols, the first, third, fourth, and fifth were designated as "successful" war patrols, for which she received four battle stars.

Historical records indicate that Lieutenant Commander Becker conducted the funeral service for the Cobias one wartime casualty.

One of the targets resisted with machine gun fire which damaged Cobias radar equipment and killed Ralph Clark Huston Jr., a 20 mm gun loader and the submarine's only casualty of the war.

The family name Rachycentridae, from the Greek words rhachis ("spine") and kentron ("sting"), was inspired by these dorsal spines.

A phylogenetic analysis, based on 138 putatively informative characters, of the 11 species of the superfamily Echeneoidea (Echeneidae, Rachycentridae, and Coryphaenidae) resulted in a single most parsimonious tree.

Mugil cephalus Mugilidae Eleutheronema tetradactylum Polynemidae Perciformes Pomatomus saltatrix Rachycentron canadum Rachycentridae Trachurus spp.