Species: Trinectes paulistanus, Slipper Sole, Southern Hogchoker, Southern Hogchoker Sole
mid-body -often 2 large blotches

Trinectes paulistanus (Miránda-Ribiero, 1915)
Southern Hogchoker, Slipper Sole, Southern Hogchoker Sole
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; blind side with numerous long tentacles on head and tentacles along bases of front dorsal fin rays; dorsal 53-62 rays, origin above lower eye; anal rays 38-45; eye-side pectoral fin normally with a single ray on eye side, absent on blind side; pelvic fin on eye side fused to anal; both pelvics 5 rays; 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 cirri absent, except for small patch between front nostril and lower eye.
Eye-side pale (rarely dark) brown, body usually with 8-11 narrow dotted dark crossbars, often a line of dark dots along the body midline, scattered dark dots, body often with scattered dark blotches sometimes a large dark blotch at base of dorsal and anal fin at mid-body level; tail fin without spots; blind side uniform brown, paler head, or with scattered dark blotches at rear of body.
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
- Freshwater
- Hypersaline
- 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
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Insects
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- 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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- Also in Brazil
- Continent
- Continent only
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- 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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- Least concern
- Listed
- 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