Species: Trinectes paulistanus, Slipper sole, Southern Hogchoker Sole, Southern hogchoker

fins - rows spots

eye-side pectoral usually present (1 ray)
Trinectes paulistanus (Miránda-Ribiero, 1915)
Slipper sole, Southern hogchoker
Body oval; eyes on right side, not tiny (40-56% of snout length); 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 54-60 rays, origin above lower eye; anal rays 40-45; eye-side pectoral fin normally with a single ray; pelvic fin on eye side fused to anal; lateral line from head to tail, straight, with perpendicular branches running across body; body covered with rough scales; scales on front of head enlarged, 4-5 rows on preopercle, 8-10 rows on opercle.
Eye-side brown, body with ~8 narrow dotted dark crossbars, a line of dark dots along the body midline, scattered dark dots, and, sometimes, a large dark blotch at base of dorsal and anal fin at mid-body level; dorsal, anal and tail fins with dark spots in rows.
Size: to 18 cm.
Habitat: estuaries and hypersaline lagoons.
Depth: 0-16 m.
NW Caribbean to Brazil.

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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Hypersaline
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Mud
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Estuary
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Insects
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Extends South of GC
- Also in Brazil
- Continent only
- GC non-endemic
- Continent
- All species..
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 18
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 16