PLEURONECTIFORMES

Phillip, Dawn A. T., Taphorn, Donald C., Holm, Erling, Gilliam, James F., Lamphere, Bradley A. & López-Fernández, Hernán, 2013, Annotated list and key to the stream fishes of Trinidad & Tobago, Zootaxa 3711 (1), pp. 1-64 : 25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3711.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7D6B537E-A945-417D-9632-58240DA6F6A2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6153124

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03879C69-FFF1-FFDA-45DF-FA6CC554F81D

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

PLEURONECTIFORMES
status

 

ORDER PLEURONECTIFORMES View in CoL View at ENA

FAMILY ACHIRIDAE

Achirus novoae Cervigón 1982 [No common name]

Species was described from the freshwaters of the Orinoco River Delta (Ramos et al. 2009), and has been collected from the mouths of rivers in both Trinidad (ROM 88786, ROM 88856) and Tobago (USNM 319084). Native. Very little is known about this species. Misidentified in the past as Achirus achirus or A. lineatus . 106 mm.

Trinectes paulistanus (Miranda Ribeiro 1915) [slipper sole]

Marine, brackish (Costa de Azevedo et al. 2007) and fresh water; shallow, soft-bottomed coastal areas (Costa de Azevedo et al. 2007), hypersaline lagoons, estuaries, enters streams. Carnivore (Correa & Uieda 2007, Guedes & Araújo 2008). 180 mm.

We follow Lasso and Sánchez-Duarte (2011) in identifying the species of Trinectes in Trinidad & Tobago as T. paulistanus . T. maculatus substitutes for this species to the north, along coasts of the Gulf of Mexico.

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF