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Achiridae
Plainfin sole
Achirus declivis
Sand mud bottom feeder from the Amazon to Paria Bay
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- South America
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Deep-bodied
MediumPlainfin sole is a freshwater fish of Western Atlantic. The species occupies estuaries and brackish water. Records give a maximum length of 18.7 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Flatfishes
- Family
- Achiridae
- Genus
- Achirus
- Maximum length
- 18.7 cm
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Belize to Santa Catarina, Brazil; also Trinidad, Jamaica, St. Barthélemy, and Suriname.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Family
Conservation status
