Species: Trinectes inscriptus, Scrawled Sole
C yellow/clear
Trinectes inscriptus (Gosse, 1851)
Scrawled Sole
Body oval; eyes on right side, small; head short and deep; front margin of head with short tentacles; snout rounded; mouth small, oblique, a little under snout; lips fleshy; rear edge of preopercle covered with skin, visible as a superficial groove; gill openings wide, united before pelvic fins; without opening connecting gill chambers on both sides; dorsal 51-58 rays, origin above lower eye; anal rays 36-46; a small pectoral fin on eye-side; eye side pelvic fin fused to anal; lateral line from head to tail, straight, with perpendicular branches running across body; body covered with rough scales.
Eye side head, body and dorsal and anal fins pale brown with dense brown reticulating lines; tail fin light yellow to clear.
Size: to 15 cm.
Habitat: sandy-mud bottoms, brackish water (mangrove lagoons) to marine.
Depth: 0-136 m.
The Bahamas to the Guyanas.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Estuary
- Freshwater
- Mangrove
- Mud
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends South of GC
- GC endemic
- Island (s)
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 15
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 136
